Republicans Introduce Bill to DEFUND Taxpayer-Funded “Liberal Propaganda” NPR

Republican Sen. Jim Banks and House Rep. Kat Cammack have just introduced a bill that would defund taxpayer-funded National Public Radio.

The pair argue that federal funds should not go to a network that is supposed to provide unbiased, factual news, but in reality pushes liberal propaganda tuned to a primarily Democrat audience.

Sen. Banks posted on X:

Taxpayers should not be forced to pay for NPR’s liberal propaganda. I introduced a bill that puts a stop to it. https://t.co/DPs9U1EUc7

— Senator Jim Banks (@SenatorBanks) February 27, 2025

Rep. Cammack also posted:

This afternoon I proudly introduced the Defund NPR Act in the House. With @SenatorBanks as our Senate lead, we're opposing federal funding for NPR as its liberal propaganda production reaches new heights. Read more here! 👇https://t.co/jgweto9UN9

— Rep. Cammack Press Office (@RepKatCammack) February 26, 2025

More details from Breitbart:

Sen. Jim Banks (R-IN) and Rep. Kat Cammack (R-FL) believe American taxpayers shouldn’t be keeping National Public Radio (NPR) afloat.

The pair are introducing legislation in their respective chambers to put an end to taxpayer subsidizing of the notoriously left-leaning media outlet, Breitbart News learned exclusively Wednesday.

“Taxpayers shouldn’t be forced to fund NPR’s liberal propaganda,” Banks told Breitbart News. “If NPR can’t stay afloat without government funding, that tells you all you need to know about the quality of their news.”

Banks’ Defund NPR Act would prohibit federal funding for National Public Radio by amending section 396 of the Communications Act so that no funds may, directly or indirectly, be made available to or used to support the National Public Radio, including through the payment of dues to or the purchase of programming from the organization.

Cammack is taking the lead across the Capitol.

“I’m glad to join my longtime friend, Sen. Banks, in introducing the Defund NPR Act in the House,” Cammack told Breitbart News in a statement. “Last Congress, the Energy & Commerce Committee held a hearing about the status of NPR and how federal funds are often used for left-wing activism under the journalism moniker. For too long, NPR cherry-picked its coverage in favor of its majority Democrat listeners—87 percent according to a Pew Research Survey—from failing to cover an assassination attempt on Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh in 2018 to ignoring former President Joe Biden’s business dealings with his son Hunter in 2020.

“Federal funds shouldn’t be available to NPR.”

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During the 2024 election, NPR portrayed President Trump as a dangerous threat to democracy and the Constitution and held a clear editorial bias towards Kamala Harris despite having an obligation to act impartially as a public organization.

NPR was established to broadcast truth to the American people, but its leftwing academic-fueled ideology has prevented it from fulfilling its sole purpose.

Republicans have been talking about defunding NPR for years.

This is something that patriotic Americans, by and large, want done.

NPR doesn’t serve its original purpose to report the truth to the American people.

It’s a huge waste of our tax dollars to hold up a network that regularly broadcasts fake news.

Let them fund themselves.

Take a look at what people are thinking on X:

Absolutely!

Their antennas should be sold for scrap.

Then onto PBS and the National Endowment for the “Arts”!

— Wrath Warden (@Wrath_Warden) February 27, 2025

I’ve been waiting many years for NPR to lose taxpayer funding – I hope it comes to fruition.

— JasperT (@justin3202) February 27, 2025

The state shouldn’t fund any media. 🫡🇺🇸

— Navin Johnson (@burgess_bart) February 27, 2025

Will it finally happen?

What do you think?