More than any other news network, the PBS News Hour has devoted the first few months of the second Trump administration focusing on the sad stories of proposed and actual Trump administration budget reductions, finding sympathetic victims to personalize the trauma and harm done. Then it turns around and runs a story about Moody’s downgrading the U.S. credit rating due to the growing U.S. debt – somehow, both budget restraint and budget profligacy reflect badly on the Trump administration.
PBS went all out to fight Monday evening for a relatively obscure federal program, the once-controversial AmeriCorps, which places young adults in schools (e.g. the Teach for America program) and other public service roles, created to liberal media fanfare during the Clinton administration.
A 1999 commentary from the libertarian Cato Institute called AmeriCorps an “ill-designed, if…
