What Trump and the GOP have planned next for NPR and PBS should scare you

The Republican Congress has voted almost unanimously to strip public broadcasters NPR and PBS of their federal funding. President Donald Trump will soon make it official when he signs the rescission cut into law. Both NPR and PBS are now at significant risk, along with the dozens of local radio and television stations in their networks.

“It is very important that all Republicans...DEFUND THE CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING (PBS and NPR), which is worse than CNN & MSNBC put together,” Trump wrote on Truth Social prior to the Senate vote.

“Border crossings at their lowest levels in history last week and NPR defunded. Two big wins!” Vice President JD Vance, who cast the tie-breaking vote in the Senate this week slashing more than $9 billion from PBS and NPR and international aid agency USAID, crowed on X.

But stripping NPR and PBS of federal funding is just the first step in the Trump/GOP master plan for both public broadcasting networks. What the Trump White House will almost certainly propose next should send deep shivers down the spines of everyone in America.

According to Project 2025 – the Heritage Foundation’s policy and political blueprint that the Trump administration has hewed to religiously since Trump’s inauguration to a second term in January—defunding NPR and PBS was just the first step.

The second shoe to fall would be to reclassify both NPR and PBS and strip both public broadcasters of their noncommercial, educational status .

https://contrarian.substack.com/p/what-trump-and-the-gop-have-planned