White House readies plan for Congress to ax ‘all’ public broadcasting funds, codify DOGE aid cuts

WASHINGTON — The White House has begun to notify Congress of a petition to destruct “all” nationalist broadcasting backing and codify overseas assistance cuts identified by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, The Post has learned.

Major projected clawbacks successful nan alleged “rescissions” scheme see $1.1 cardinal successful appropriated backing for nan Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which provides costs to PBS and National Public Radio, and $8.3 cardinal from USAID.

A memo drafted by White House fund head Russ Vought — requested by GOP legislature leaders — accuses CPB of a “lengthy history of anti-conservative bias” and cites “waste, fraud, and abuse” astatine USAID.

Formal transmission of nan scheme to lawmakers will commencement a 45-day timepiece for nan Republican-held House and Senate to either adopt aliases cull nan blueprint, which nan White House believes will walk — dissimilar President Trump’s 2018 rescission plan, which grounded by 1 ballot successful nan Senate.

“Since time one, nan Trump Administration has targeted waste, fraud, and maltreatment successful Federal spending done executive action, DOGE review, and different efforts by departments and agencies. Congress has expressed beardown liking successful supporting those efforts, and requested nan Administration transmit rescissions to nan Hill for swift approval,” Vought’s memo says.

“OMB recommends nan Administration respond pinch 2 proposals to trim $9.3 billion. The first includes a rescission of $8.3 cardinal successful wasteful overseas assistance spending (out of $22 billion) that does not expire successful Fiscal Year (FY) 2025. The 2nd is simply a abstracted rescission of each Federal backing for nan Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) — which costs nan politically biased nationalist power and nationalist tv system.”

The White House memo notes that NPR CEO Katherine Maher erstwhile called Trump a “fascist” and “deranged racist” — statements that Maher told Congress past month she now regrets making — and cites 2 caller PBS programs featuring transgender characters.

NPR and PBS some person divers gross streams, including awesome instauration grants, advertizing and voluntary spectator and listener donations, meaning that neither is apt to cease operations if they suffer national funding.

Musk’s DOGE inaugural is seeking to trim $1 trillion successful yearly spending — a sum that would halve nan yearly national shortage — and immoderate cuts tin beryllium done without legislation.

The memo identifies galore examples that it says are “illustrative of nan discarded that could proceed without nan rescission.”

The database includes $9.4 cardinal for “Championing Transformative Changes successful Gender Norms,” $3 cardinal for Iraqi Sesame Street, $500,000 for electrical buses successful Rwanda, $6 cardinal for Palestinian media and civic nine support, $882,000 to money societal media mentorship successful Serbia and Belarus, $1 cardinal for elector ID successful Haiti, and $3 cardinal for circumcision, vasectomies and condoms successful Zambia.

The package besides contains smaller cuts to 3 different agencies that Trump targeted successful a February executive bid that called for them to beryllium pared to “the minimum beingness and usability required by law” — including $15 cardinal from nan US Institute of Peace, $27 cardinal from nan Inter-American Foundation and $22 cardinal from nan US African Development Foundation.

Trump attempted conscionable 1 rescissions package successful his first term. The $14.7 cardinal successful projected cuts passed nan House but was narrowly defeated successful nan Senate by a 50-48 vote, pinch then-Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC) tanking nan scheme complete his objection to zeroing retired $16 cardinal successful unused money successful nan Land and Water Conservation Fund.