House Speaker Mike Johnson rejected Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York’s demand that Congress allocate $500 million for certain media outlets Friday, saying, “We’re not doing that.”
The House of Representatives passed both a short-term funding measure and a resolution honoring assassinated Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk on Friday. Democrats have demanded that the stopgap funding measure add over $1 trillion in funding for various priorities, including reversing the rescission of funds for public broadcasting.
“Chuck Schumer and the Democrats issued a counteroffer, and the counteroffer is filled with poison pills and partisan demands that will break the system down, and Chuck Schumer knows that,” Johnson said after the House votes. “He’s trying to force, for example, and everybody at home needs to understand what Chuck Schumer is trying to do, is force $1.4 trillion in additional spending on the American people, a spending on a very short-term continued resolution to keep the government out.”
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“He also wants to make sure, he wants to reinstate health care to be provided free by American taxpayers for illegal aliens. We’re not going to do that either,” Johnson continued. “He also wants to add $500 million to prop up left-leaning media organizations. We’re not doing that either.”
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has identified $206 billion in savings since President Donald Trump took office on Jan. 20, despite drawing fire from Democrats over various cuts it identified, including the closure of the United States Agency for International Development.
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CBP) shut down after its funding was clawed back in a rescissions package passed in July. During Trump’s first term, then-PBS White House reporter Yamiche Alcindor clashed with Trump multiple times during his first term in the White House, claimed Trump’s 2020 speech at Mount Rushmore promoted “white resentment” and asserted that former President Theodore Roosevelt “oversaw the desecration of Native land.”
A fact sheet released by the White House in May noted that over a six-month period, PBS news reports used the term “far right” 162 times as opposed to only six uses of the term “far left,” according to a study.
Caden Olson contributed to this article.
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