Many stations of NPR members in danger if the loan is cut by Gop: Report
About 180 member stations of the National Public Radio (NPR) who struggle to break could close if Republican legislators have cut fundingAccording to a Stark relationship.
Katherine Maher, CEO of NPR, was called to testify to the subcommittee of the Chamber for the delivery of the government’s efficiency to Capitol Hill last week while the Republicans pushed the deceased of the organization.
The radio network financed with public funds has been strongly criticized for political prejudices and its critics do not believe that the government should pay the bill, but Maher said that NPR plays an essential role in “providing impartial reports, non -partisan, based on facts” to the Americans.
While the repercussions from the hearing continues, the New York Times has published a desolate relationship Tuesday who detailed those who would hear the consequences if in the end the government funds had been stripped. Although the data are 14 years old, it contains strong warnings for 2025.
About 1,000 NPR members who struggle to break will close even if the Gop legislators cut the loans, according to a relationship. (Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)
NPR compiled a long document in 2011 that outlined what would have happened if the government cut funding for the company for public broadcasts, the company supported by the government that supports both NPR and PBS, according to the Times.
“The document, which has not been reported previously, is desolant. It describes a precarious radio system that will bear the blow badly, with consequences for listeners throughout the nation”, wrote the Times Mullin journalist.
The document observed that most of the “NPR members’ stations operate or just above, Break-Even”, according to the Times, which adds that a cut “would cause up to $ 240 million to vanish and up to 18 percent of about 1,000 members to close” and up to 30 percent of listeners would lose access to NPR programming.
Americans in rural areas without broadband internet access would be the most affected, according to the times. Mullin suggested that the NPR can “resist the cut of the loan” thanks to a predicted wave of donations if Elon Musk’s doge cuts the loan, but “it will probably give more in the markets of the big cities”, leaving the stations in the Midwest, south and in the west the most difficult blow.
NPR did not immediately respond to a request for Fox News Digital For a comment.
The President and CEO of the National Public Radio Katherine Maher testifies during an audition of the Supervision and Reform Committee of the Government at the Campidoglio della Unitedi on March 26, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
President Donald Trump repeatedly supported Yanking Federal foundation For NPR and PBS, saying at the end of March: “I would be honored to see it finish. We are well covered. Look at all the people we have here today. We are well covered and we don’t need it, and it is a waste of money especially”.
The representative Ronny Jackson, R-Texas, last week reintroduced the radio law and partisan transmission services of No Partisans to eliminate all federal funding for both NPR and PBS.
“For decades, the radical democrats have channeled dollars of taxpayers to NPR and PBS on the pretext of” serving the public “, despite both organizations that abandon their fundamental missions to provide unstoptied content and instead promoting the same propaganda on the radical left like any other false news,” said Jackson when he announced the account.
“If these organizations want to push partisan agendas, they don’t deserve another hundredth federal support,” Jackson continued.
After an audition that affects the subcommittee of the Doge Chamber, the representative Ronny Jackson, R-Texas, introduced a bill to extract all government funding from “chronically partly” NPR and PBS stores, which according to him has “pushed the democratic discussion points under the false banner of” public media “. (Getty Images)
Democrats in the Doge subcommittee have invoked characters from Sesame Street and Muppets to attack the Gop’s efforts to cut funding to public broadcasts. The CEO of the public media of Alaska and Ulman has been witnessed by the pro-public media.
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“We are essential,” said Ulman.
