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Rep. Ronny Jackson, R-Texas, is celebrating President Donald Trump's leadership in sending a DOGE cuts package to Congress that he believes will "finally" defund NPR and PBS, which he said have become "nothing more than fake news."
Jackson claimed the outlets, which receive millions of dollars in federal taxpayer funding, "have become taxpayer-funded propaganda arms of the radical Left."
The White House is expected to include cuts to both NPR and PBS in the $9.4 billion federal spending cut proposal – called a "rescissions" package – it is sending to Congress on Tuesday.
It is the latest move by Republican officials to make good on promises to slash government spending, a project spearheaded by the president and the