Hugh Hewitt: Taxpayer Support for NPR Should End

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NPR—National Public Radio—is helmed by Katherine Maher who testified last week before the DOGE Subcommittee of the U.S. House Oversight Committee.

It did not go well for her. Not just because she’s CEO of a left-wing outlet. It didn’t go well for her because she had spent years on X … with some very outrageous takes that were exposed.

The bottom line is this: NPR is hard left. Not center-left. Not left-leaning. Hard left. And that is an objective assessment. I don’t think you could find 10% of its staff that support President Trump. I don’t think you could find 5%. Let’s just be candid: It’s an ideological machine that has a mission to make America think like its staff does—leftist.

NPR is simply radio with funding from the government and enthusiasts. Bravo to the enthusiasts. That’s what the First Amendment is all about. But it is time to end the federal subsidy. Forever. For good.

It is long past time to end the ruse of "listener supported" NPR. It is "taxpayer supported" NPR, and that has got to end.

Now.

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