Rep. Kat Cammack and Sen. Jim Banks introduce the Defund NPR Act
Press release from U.S. Rep. Kat Cammack
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, Rep. Kat Cammack (R-FL-03) and Senator Jim Banks (R-IN) introduced the Defund NPR Act, which amends section 396 of the Communications Act (47 U.S.C. 396), ensuring no federal funds, direct or indirect, support NPR, including dues or programming purchases.
“I’m glad to join my longtime friend, Senator Banks, in introducing the Defund NPR Act in the House,” said Rep. Cammack. “Last Congress, the Energy & Commerce Committee held a hearing about the status of NPR and how federal funds are often used for left-wing activism under the journalism moniker. For too long, NPR cherry-picked its coverage in favor of its majority Democrat listeners—87 percent according to a Pew Research Survey—from failing to cover an assassination attempt on Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh in 2018 to ignoring former President Joe Biden’s business dealings with his son Hunter in 2020. Federal funds shouldn’t be available to NPR.”
“Taxpayers shouldn’t be forced to fund NPR’s liberal propaganda. If NPR can’t stay afloat without government funding, that tells you all you need to know about the quality of their news,” said Sen. Banks.
Read the text of the legislation here and more about the bill from Breitbart here.
I’ll buy that for a dollar…as long as Congress doesn’t vote themselves raises anytime in the near future.
We’re obviously not getting what we’ve been paying for.
I actually like their feature programs. Some of them, like Hidden Brain, are excellent.
But wow. Almost everything else is far left.
Kat: we’ve been drinking out of paper straws in Gainesville and Alachua County for the last 5 years and paper straws suck!
We want to drink out of plastic straws like President Trump!
Please make sure Gainesville and Alachua County abide by his Executive Order banning paper straws!
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God bless America !🇺🇸
Hallelujah ! I only listen for the laughs and uncontrollable giggles — mine!
Sadly, Dems destroy everything they take over, like a false prophet does to cult followers. ACLUSPLCDNC 👿👺👹🤡💩
That should bring down the price of eggs. Thanks, KitKat!
Thank you Jed, watch out for falling prices! One might hit you in the head! 😃
When will she have a town hall to discuss?
Kat has a tele town hall every month or so. I receive a robo call from Macintosh and join in. It is an excellent way to participate.
You can’t ask a question unless pre-selected.
She’s too much a coward to have a town hall in the biggest city in her district.
Kat, do something to make sure that there’s never a vaccine passport here in the United States. We don’t need any BS like that here in order to engage in commerce.
Yippee! Libs heads will explode! Go Kat Go!
Whats funny is our heads do not explode. We just disown our GOP family and are amazed at how stupid you people are. You are going to die in the worst nursing home in town screaming with giant bedsores. This is MAGA’s end. You take glee in hate and pain of others? We will watch your bedsores grow to dinner plate size. No one will visit you because of the smell.
You need to call your sponsor.
Now now, go take your meds and it’ll all be better…
You wish traitor, me and the rest of the real patriots are sober as the judges not appointed by your fascist king.
Yes yes yes Magaisacult, eye agrees wif yous dose Maga peepulls are so dum dey ain’t more mostest smartz like yous, mees, an da rest of us libertards
Keep smoking that dope
Obvious cult member….project much? You LITERALLY tried to insult someone by stating that they would take glee in hate and pain of others and then made comments about bedsores and smells. (Not to mention about them dying in the worst possible nursing home). Seek professional help.
Nope. You are in the same cult, hateful. I think you’ll be dying early too, bet you scream that covid is not real while you do, all you traitors love to die for no reason. Its what your fake king wants! More dead MAGA! I saw it first hand. You scream until you are intubated for the last time. We literally can not wait til you check out, you are a menace.
NPT and PBS are taxpayer funded radio services with a definite leftist leaning. They were started by the left because the Democrats and Liberals could not and still can not find sponsors for their radical agenda. They have never been able to compete in the free market with conservative radio and TV. Taxpayers should not have to pay for these brain washing/propaganda services.
You think it’s brainwashing because you are stupid and ignorance is driving this whole country into the grave. Bet yours is sooner than you think. MAGA is a minority and they are all going to lose SSI and Medicare, and your fake kings plan is for all of you to die sooner. I actually like that one.
Are you over medicated or under medicated? Seek help.
Instead of going into a rage pout, why not engage them in civil, polite discourse, keeping in mind that the facts upon which you’re basing your opinions just might be incomplete or wrong? Learning is fun.
Nah I would rather watch you losers and traitors eat your own to carry on. It pleases me to see you suffer consequences for your actions. Woke is forbidden to you because you get big mad when it happens normally, don’t blame me! I did it fifteen, ten, two, years ago! Not me now!
Liberalism is a mental disorder.
With all the issues in this world Fat Mack is worried about NPR. When are those grocery prices coming down? Day one? LOL. We are careening toward a recession with the bronze aged one in office. I do agree with one thing…deep cuts to medicaid. Can’t wait to see all those deep red states suffer.
Kat, get us plastic straws in Gainesville next!
Liberal heads are exploding and planets 🌎 🪐 are colliding! 💥
You traitors voted for the impotent leader of a failed coup. You deserve every misery coming to you. I am here for it, I love to see it happen in real time. Bet your SSI and Medicare is toast, freeloader!
Anything MAGA does not like is defunded. It is called fascism.
Or else like a local cartoon said all they do is “incessant virtue signaling.”
Wow, now fascism is defunding what you don’t like? You’ve just let us know that you think fascism is anything *you* don’t like.
I challenge you to find a reference for that definition of fascism.
Go back and stand on the street corner
Agree totally, NPR is a propaganda organ for the left. All Federal funding should stop. I detest that my tax dollars go to that biased organization.
How foolish, and an empty gesture. The amount of federal funding NPR receives is quite small in the grand scheme of things. Just another attempt by MAGA to contribute towards the dumbing down of America.
NPR has always been left wing
Oh no left wing! Not hate and lies and actually harming people! How dare they exist?!
Dear Kat, is this really a priority for this legislative session? If so, we need to field better Conservatives that have time to file bills that will actually help us the American people. You have a knack for the performative I will give you that. At this rate, you’re no better than the detested liberal politician. Eggs are currently up $5, a far cry from the $1.80 under the old senile guy, make it make sense KAT!
ok but what about the 38 BILLION DOLLARS that has went to elon musk over the last 10 years. Where is the bill to defund that. Where is the bill to audit the pentagon. Where are the bills that actually benefit the average person, the average constituent? oh that’s right, this is just more culture war distraction while the rich rob us blind.
NPR should have pledge drives. Of course their pseudo-intellectual listeners are more interested in saving their money to buy overpriced coffee and be seen at some seedy sidewalk cafe they think is “so European.”
Bet I have more calluses than you Peabody, have strung barbed wire, poured concrete, castrated calves, but can tell the difference between Maxwell House and Peet’s coffee, so take your stupid stereotype and shove it.
But yet Jazz knows nothing about the 2 billion dollar wood burner fiasco
Correct, DeeDee. I was just posting the same
I listen to NPR regularly they are very centered with a left leaning bias, but the facts they report are flat center. It’s amazing that there’s still journalistic integrity today, and the Overton window is pushed so deeply to the right, that good journalism to conservatives feel like an attack on them.
I agree. 1A is too left leaning IMO, but most of the day is fact and center based. I miss Diane Rheems though Joshua Johnson was a worthy successor.
PS And there is no alternative. NPR is only partially funded by the federal government, but if the GOP doesn’t like the programming, seek to change it and save the only thorough news source on air. Apparently the best “private radio” – dominated by national companies dictating local programming – can come up with is 24/7 right wing screeching by idiots like Hannity and Levin who have no allegiance to facts, let alone balance, and 5 minutes every hour from the networks. That isn’t news.
Diane rheems was a bozo
Opinion: send them your money, not mine. I’m not a listener.
You benefit by other citizens not being as dumb and uninformed as you.
These folks keep throwing out senseless and stupid attack targets while slashing jobs from veterans, stripping benefits from the poor and gaslighting all of us about immigration. And the folks falling for it are in for some very tough days ahead.
Itemize the jobs vets have lost. Baloney.
Typical. Musk is stealing us blind in public while Trump tries to bulldoze whatever he doesn’t like and the best Kat can do as a member of Congress is waste time trying to “own the libs” instead of standing up for her constituents. You know, like the VA which just announced cuts to our hospital and in Lake City and UF which stands to lose millions in research. She’s not loyal to us, she’s loyal to the GOP and whatever BS Trump dreams up next (“Ukraine started the war”!!!) Funny, but us libs don’t think governing is about “owning the right wing”. It’s about doing the right thing for your constituents, the majority of whom have no access to informative and in depth news interviewing experts and spokesman for various sides of an issue, except NPR. No wonder she can’t stand it.
Those of you postulating right wing radio as the model for “news” are too lost to grasp reality and don’t realize that most powerful radio stations are part of national businesses that decide programming and in a decidedly right wing manner. There is no radio news except NPR and if she has a problem with it she should lean on them to improve in whatever way she thinks it takes, not end it. We will be in a a real wasteland of radio information without it.
Yeah, the va cut 5 jobs not needed.
Keep the funding. Fire everyone. Replace with avart-garde right.
Winning is not just punishing your enemies, but also rewarding your friends.
Avant garde