Senate moves to defund Leftist propaganda
Republican senators have introduced legislation to defund National Public Radio (NPR) and Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), which have long served as state-sponsored propaganda for the Left.
The No Propaganda Act, sponsored by Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) and backed by other senators, would prohibit taxpayer dollars from going to what Kennedy referred to as “left-of-center opinion journalism.”
“We’re spending half a billion dollars a year—14-and-a-half billion dollars over time—to give to people at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and NPR, and PBS to participate in opinion journalism, which they’re entitled to do, but they can’t do it on the taxpayer dime. They’re doing it on the taxpayer dime, but they shouldn’t be able to,” he said on the Senate floor. Kennedy displayed a board showing headlines from NPR pushing the Left’s political agenda.
$320K to a ‘chief diversity officer’
“The folks at PBS and NPR are doing pretty well for themselves. NPR just bought a $201 million office space just up the road from the Capitol. $200 million. It came from American taxpayers so they could publish this stuff,” he said.
Kennedy added that NPR pays its hosts as much as $523,000 a year and its “chief diversity officer” rakes in $320,000.
“Despite all of this money that the American taxpayers are giving to these Left-of-center entities, their viewership has declined. Because people don’t need them anymore. So why are we giving them money?” he asked.
The senator clarified that his bill would not eliminate the entities—it would just defund them.
“They can go exist on their own if they want to—funded. We’re running $36 trillion in debt. This is disgraceful in 2025. It’s disgraceful whether it is Left-of-center opinion journalism or Right-of-center opinion journalism. It is disgraceful for the American people to have to fund this rot. It doesn’t have a right to exist, and they don’t have a right to taxpayer money,” Kennedy finished.
