NPR was long lambasted by President Donald Trump and other Republicans as a left-leaning institution that didn’t deserve taxpayer money, but after years of banter, federal funding was cut last week.
Trump's rescissions package includes over $1 billion in cuts from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), the government-backed funding arm for NPR and PBS. The clawback package teed up cuts to "woke" spending on foreign aid programs and public media, as Republicans finally yanked federal money from NPR in a move advocates said was long overdue.
Fox News Digital breaks down exactly what happened — from attention to NPR’s perceived liberal bias through Trump's rescissions package, and what happens next.
NPR was long lambasted by President Donald Trump and other Republicans as a left-leaning institution that didn’t deserve taxpayer money, but after years of banter, federal funding was cut last week. (NPR logo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images. Trump photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
Fox News Digital’s Joseph A. Wulfsohn, Elizabeth Elkind, Hanna Panreck and Lindsay Kornick contributed to this report.