Congress shouldn’t be forcing taxpayers to spend a half-billion dollars a year subsidizing news outlets that produce biased, fake news that offends more than half the nation, Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) said Tuesday.
In Senate remarks, Kennedy called for the government to stop funding the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB):
“President Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency is looking for fat to trim, Mr. President.
“As far as I’m concerned, this gravy train – this gravy train with biscuit wheels called the Corporation for Public Broadcasting – is the perfect example of a project the American people no longer need and should not fund.”
After providing examples of blatantly biased headlines and slanted content published by National Public Radio, Sen. Kennedy said he wasn’t trying to censor the news outlets, but it’s…
