Federal funding for NPR is no more, at least for now.
Early Friday morning, the House approved the rescissions package, which, among other things, clawed back over $1 billion from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. The vote capped off a long battle (decades-long, if you're counting the times lawmakers promised to do it but didn't follow through). But it's a battle that, especially this time around, didn't need to happen—because NPR should have rejected the federal funds from the outset. No one made a better argument for that than the CEO of the nonprofit, Katherine Maher.
"As far as the accusations that we're biased, I would stand up and say, 'Please show me a story that concerns you,'" she said Wednesday on CNN, "because we want to know and we want to bring that conversation back to our newsroom." She echoed that sentiment on a different show on the same network, saying that "we are, of course, a nonpartisan organization."
