By Katherine Tinsley
2:11am PDT, Mar 28, 2025
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A DOGE Subcommittee recommended that the United States stop providing financial support for PBS and NPR.
"Well, I would love to do that," Trump said after a journalist asked about the "Anti-American Airwaves: Holding the heads of NPR and PBS Accountable" DOGE Subcommittee, according to
Fox News.
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Donald Trump has taken legal action against select media outlets that seemingly supported Kamala Harris during the 2024 election.
"I think it's very unfair," Trump stressed. "It's been very biased. The whole group, I mean, a whole group of them. And frankly, there's plenty of — look at all the media you have right now. There's plenty of coverage."
According to reports, PBS receives 16% of its funding from the government.
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Donald Trump later accused PBS and NPR of mismanaging funds.
"They spend more money than any other network of its type ever conceived, so the kind of money that's being wasted, and it's a very biased view, you know that better than anybody," Trump said.
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Donald Trump later celebrated the potential downfall of PBS and NPR.
"And I'd be honored to see it end. We're well covered," Trump said. "Look at all the people that we have here today."
"We're well covered, and we don't need it, and it's a waste of money, especially," the former reality star continued. "I don't even know what DOGE's recommendation is. I assume their recommendation is to close them up."
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Marjorie Taylor Greene, who chairs the DOGE Subcommittee, urged NPR CEO
Katherine Maher and PBS CEO
Paula Kerger to justify why they deserve tax dollars.
"I want to hear why NPR and PBS think they should ever again receive a single cent from the American taxpayer," Greene said.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene later accused the outlets of withholding important details about
Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden, in their reporting.
"These partisan, so-called 'media' stations dropped the ball on Hunter Biden's laptop, downplayed COVID-19 origins, and failed to properly report the Russian collusion hoax," she said.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene demanded that NPR's and PBS' CEOs explain their alleged failure to cover news stories that didn't favor Joe Biden.
"Now, it is time for their CEOs to publicly explain this biased coverage," Greene said. "Federal taxpayers should not be forced to pay for one-sided reporting, which attacks over half the country to protect and promote its own political interests."
"I look forward to working with the Trump Administration to stop allowing the blatant misuse of taxpayer funds for partisan ends," she concluded.
