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Media Watchdog Goes Full Throttle On Defunding NPR, PBS With Letters To Trump, Congress

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A conservative media watchdog has a new top priority — defunding NPR and PBS.

The Media Research Center (MRC) is leading a push to defund both public media 
outlets, urging President Donald Trump, congressional leaders, and governors 
to strip taxpayer subsidies to these “far-left media outlets,” the group 
revealed exclusively to The Daily Wire.

The watchdog urged the Trump administration to include the “complete 
defunding” of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and its affiliates, PBS 
and NPR, in a rescission package that could soon be sent to Congress.

“Taxpayers should not be forced to subsidize a media entity that has outlived 
its original purpose and refuses to operate in a transparent manner,” the MRC 
wrote in its letter to Trump.

The watchdog is calling on the CEOs of NPR and PBS to subject themselves to 
public audits and asking members of Congress to refuse to meet with their 
lobbyists until those audits are done.

The MRC is also calling on congressional leaders to repeal the legislation 
that created the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

Finally, the group is calling on state governors and federal agencies to halt 
all discretionary grants to PBS and NPR until the outlets are audited.

A coalition of critics joined the MRC in signing letters to elected 
officials, including Seth Dillon, owner of the Babylon Bee; Mike Gonzalez, 
senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation; Terry Schilling, president of the 
American Principles Project; Steven Ertelt, editor at LifeNews.com; and 
Austin Ruse, president of the Center for Family and Human Rights.

“This action is in concert with your historic promise and rapid delivery of 
cutting waste, fraud, and abuse across the federal government,” the coalition 
wrote to Trump.

The group argued that the “original justification” for the Corporation for 
Public Broadcasting “no longer holds.”

“In today’s media-rich environment, Americans have unlimited access to news, 
entertainment, and educational programming,” they wrote in their letter to 
Trump.

“NPR’s and PBS’s demonstrable, documented bias further erodes CPB’s 
credibility,” the group wrote. “NPR’s audience overwhelmingly identifies as 
liberal, reinforcing the reality that public broadcasting is not a neutral 
service but a taxpayer-funded ideological platform. Americans should not be 
forced to finance a network that caters to one side of the political 
spectrum.”

Dan Schneider, vice president of the MRC, told The Daily Wire that defunding 
PBS and NPR is his organization’s “top priority right now.”

The goal is to “eliminate every dime of taxpayer money that subsidizes these 
liberal media behemoths,” Schneider said.

“This is the most focused and aggressive takedown these outlets have ever 
faced. It may be the last, best chance taxpayers will ever have to unburden 
themselves from these leftist propaganda outlets once and for all,” he said.

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