Media GOP lawmakers, conservatives rejoice as Corporation for Public Broadcasting announces closure
Conservatives took a victory lap after the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) announced it was closing its doors Friday after President Donald Trump and the GOP-led Congress cut its federal funding last month.
"PROMISES MADE, PROMISES KEPT," House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La. exclaimed on X. "The days of the American people being forced to fund biased political outlets ARE OVER."
"Proud to lead the rescissions package President Trump signed to finally pull the plug on the Corporation for Public Broadcasting," House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., wrote. "$1.1B returned to taxpayers. No more public dollars for partisan propaganda. Republicans are ending wasteful spending and putting America First."
"I exposed that the Corporation for Public Broadcasting failed to vet editorial standards at NPR, PBS, and other ‘news’ outlets before handing over millions of tax dollars for blatantly biased partisan propaganda. Bye bye bye," Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, reacted with musical note and nail painting emojis.
Gee! An able bodied black man gets off welfare and he gets a job. He works his way up the ladder. He's better off.
I'm sure the Corporation for Public Broadcasting can do the same. They'll just have to compete in the FREE MARKET for cable time.
@Reason10 I'm so glad that you see EV tax credits as a service to the nation!! As the charts show, $6 billion worth of EV tax credits boosted Tesla sales over the past 5 years.
Many government contracts are for RESEARCH, where the deliverables are theories, data, and software. I agree that these items are also a service to the nation, but your orange god disagrees and keeps cancelling research contracts, to the chagrin of educated people.
SpaceX received a very early $1.6 billion contract in 2008 for NASA related launches. it was seed money for SpaceX without which they couldn't have launched anything. And in fact the first delivery wasn't until 2012.
You could call it research; you could also call it welfare for SpaceX until their launches became reliable. Educated people understand this.
It’s astonishing (and quite impressive) that the people robbing you blind and laughing at your gullibility have been able to persuade you to defend their corruption and falsehoods.
