It appears Republicans are going to give it another shot. Several GOP lawmakers have introduced bills to defund National Public Radio (NPR) after new revelations about the network’s obvious bias in favor of Democrats.
Folks on the right have long complained about the fact that NPR, like most other legacy media, functions as a propaganda arm of the Democratic Party. They rightly argue that the government should not be funding any news outlet that promotes a political agenda. However, such legislation is unlikely to pass. Still, Republican lawmakers are pushing bills that would take a miracle to pass, given the current makeup of Congress.
House Freedom Caucus Chair Bob Good, R-Va., Rep. Jim Banks, R-Ind., and Rep. Claudia Tenney, R-N.Y., introduced similar legislation to prohibit federal funding for NPR, including barring local public radio stations from utilizing money from federal…
