White House asks Congress to claw back $9.4 billion in funding for foreign aid, NPR, PBS in rescission package
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Washington — The White House on Tuesday sent a formal request to Congress to claw back funding for NPR, PBS and international aid that lawmakers had previously approved.
The package would cancel $9.4 billion appropriated by Congress, aiming to make permanent some of the Department of Government Efficiency's spending cuts. It focuses on slashing foreign aid, along with major public broadcasting entities, including NPR and PBS.
The $9.4 billion rescissions package includes $1.1 billion in cuts for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which provides funding to NPR and PBS. In April, the White House released a statement saying taxpayers had funded the two entities "for too long" and said they've "spread radical, woke propaganda disguised as 'news.'" PBS received $325 million in CPB funding this year.
