By Henry Rodgers
Republican Indiana Rep. Jim Banks introduced legislation Friday to defund National Public Radio (NPR).
The Daily Caller first obtained a copy of the legislation, which is titled the Defund NPR Act. The bill would cut off any federal funds to NPR.
An NPR editor, Uri Berliner, published a piece alleging the outlet has deep political bias and that the Washington D.C. bureau employs 87 registered Democrats and zero registered Republicans.
Berliner resigned after NPR suspended him for publishing the piece.
NPR’s new CEO, Katherine Maher, has also made headlines as old tweets and clips of her show political bias. Maher, who was hired in March, previously expressed support for President Joe Biden’s campaign in 2020 and called former President Donald Trump a “racist” in 2018. She has also described the First Amendment as “the number one challenge” to combatting “misinformation.” (RELATED: New NPR CEO Said ‘Reverence For The Truth’ May Be ‘Distraction’ In Resurfaced TED Talk)
Maher has complained “that ideological diversity is ‘often a dog whistle for anti-feminist, anti-POC stories.'” And she has claimed that Wikipedia is biased because it is “famously written by men,” privileges “European models of reference to the written word” over the oral traditions of illiterate peoples, and because it supposedly excludes “women, non-binary, and non-gender-conforming individuals.”
“NPR’s new CEO is a radical, left-wing activist who doesn’t believe in free speech or objective journalism. Hoosiers shouldn’t be writing her paychecks. Katherine Maher isn’t qualified to teach an introductory journalism class, much less capable of responsibly spending millions of American tax dollars,” Banks told the Caller before introducing the bill. (RELATED: NPR Editor Who Exposed Newsroom’s Left-Wing Bias Resigns)
“NPR was a liberal looney bin under the last CEO John Lansing, and it’s about to get even nuttier. It’s time to pull the plug on this national embarrassment. Congress must stop spending other people’s hard-earned money on low grade propaganda,” he added. (RELATED: EXCLUSIVE: Rep. Gaetz Calls For Taxpayer-Funded NPR To Explain Affiliate Airing Louis Farrakhan’s Speeches)
The legislation has appeared to pick up the support of businessman Elon Musk, who said it was “great” Banks is introducing the bill.
READ THE LEGISLATION HERE:
