Package will be sent to Congress after Easter recess, which ends on April 28.
The US government is preparing a proposal for Congress to withdraw $ 9.3 billion in approved financing for public radio and television stations and other agencies that are not aligned with their priorities.
A presidential office employee confirmed the what The package will be sent to Congress after Easter recesswhich ends on April 28.
A Proposal calls for the elimination of $ 9.3 billion (8.2 billion euros at the current exchange rate) of financing for federal agencies such as Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CBP), which supervises PBS and NPR, the extinct United States for International Development Agency (USAID) and the United States Institute for Peace, all Donald Trump cuts of cuts.
The request brings together arguments to demonstrate that these organizations do not share objectives aligned with those of the current government.
NPR executive editor Katherine Maher, will have called Fascist to Trump in previous publications on social networksby which the herself apologized.
It also states that PBS has displayed a program about a transgender woman to compete in a local bowling league, or USAID projects as a $ 750,000 valued (660,000 euros) to combat xenophobia in Venezuela, or another $ 500,000 (440,000 euros) to deploy a fleet of electric buses on the Rwanda.
A Approval of these cuts requires only simple majorities in the Senate (High Chamber of Congress) and the Chamber of Representatives (Baixa Chamber)both controlled by the Republicans, although their control over the low chamber is minimal.
In your crusade to cut public funding since it came to power, Trump managed to dismantle almost completely USAID, Despite conflict with the courts, and forced those responsible for the public stations, whom they accuse of being too liberal in their coverage, to attend the Chamber’s subcommodes to justify their practices.
