John Kennedy is the most colorful Member of Congress.
He decided to give his Senate colleagues a reality check.
And John Kennedy spoke five words about the media that left Democrats in stunned silence.
The gravy train has come to an end for taxpayer-funded NPR and PBS
President Donald Trump has declared war on waste, fraud, and abuse in the Washington, D.C. Swamp.
Conservatives in Congress are ready to put National Public Radio (NPR) and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) on the chopping block.
Taxpayers subsidize these Democrat propaganda outlets through the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CBP).
NPR routinely attacks Trump and his agenda on radio waves across the country on the taxpayers’ dime.
U.S. Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) argued that it was time to axe the $500 million in federal funding the CBP gets every year.
“President Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is looking for fat to trim,” Kennedy began. “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.”
Kennedy said that it would be common sense for NPR to play it right down the middle after getting taxpayer money.
The Louisiana lawmaker listed some examples of biased NPR headlines including one promoting the Russian collusion hoax.
He noted that NPR could do whatever it wanted but that it was “immoral” to force taxpayers to fund them.
“I’m all for this, if that’s what these outlets want to do,” Kennedy said. “But, I’m not for taking $500 million every single year and giving it to these stations (CBP) to the exclusion of everybody else. That’s immoral.”
NPR is lighting taxpayer money on fire
Kennedy pointed out that the country was $36 trillion in debt and was being asked to shovel more money into NPR.
“This is disgraceful in 2025. It is disgraceful whether it is left-of-center opinion journalism or right-of-center opinion journalism. It is disgraceful to the American people to have to fund this rot. It doesn’t mean the rot doesn’t have a right to exist, but they don’t have a right to taxpayer money,” Kennedy explained.
He noted that NPR has been living high on the hog from taxpayer funding for more than 50 years.
“Since 1970, the United States Congress has given NPR more than $14.5 billion,” Kennedy stated. “With all those taxpayer dollars, NPR bought a $201 million office space just up the road from the Capitol. It’s swell office space, two hundred million bucks worth.”
“NPR pays its hosts as much as $532,000 a year. It pays its Chief Diversity Officer $320,000 a year. It’s pretty good work, if you can get it,” Kennedy added.
Democrats are having radio and TV stations subsidized by taxpayers that are pushing their political message every single day.
A former NPR executive blew the whistle on the outrageous left-wing bias at the network last year.
It’s become a radio version of MSNBC with government funding.
Congressional Republicans need to end the taxpayer-funded gravy train for NPR and PBS and let Democrats pay for their propaganda outlets.
