House passes public media, foreign aid clawbacks after Epstein scramble
$9 billion taken away from NPR, PBS, USAID
New NPR show announced: The I Lurb Trump Call-in Show
Followed by the new PBS show: I Lurb Trump
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Thanks for the terrible headline, Politico. For a moment I thought NPR & PBS were clawing back funding that the GOP had decided to take rather than that it was finally getting taken from them.
Typically (always?) it's the government that is doing the "clawing back"
We lost public media and Colbert on the same day. Cool moment for America. This is going so well.
Current predictions for the midterms:
Thats sad
Already planning my exit strategy
Pretty sure the Epstein stuff was done on purpose to distract from all of this.
Or possivly the reverse; they think this will make their base happy and distract from epstein