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Republicans Make DISASTER Move Over Trump's Humiliating Sesame Street Retaliation Plot
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4:50Now PlayingRepublican Senators make disastrous move on the rescissions package to cut the recently approved funding for foreign aid, NPR and PBS in escalation of Donald Trump's insane retaliation plot against Sesame Street for making fun of him as ego-crushing clips from the show resurface. John Iadarola breaks it down on The Damage Report. Leave a comment with your thoughts below!
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Only Two Republicans Voted Against Trump Defunding Sesame Street
"Only two Republican senators broke the line to vote against their party’s plan to defund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Alaska’s Lisa Murkowski and Maine’s Susan Collins joined Senate Democrats in opposition to Republican cuts to organizations like PBS and NPR, and the smaller stations that they fund. While PBS and NPR would still continue at the national level, the cuts would likely devastate those local stations that rely on them.
The Senate approved $9 billion dollars of cuts early Thursday morning, with $1.1 billion in cuts to public broadcasting and $8.8 billion from foreign aid programs like USAID, which Elon Musk’s DOGE slashed earlier this year.
“The vast majority of this funding, more than 70 percent, actually flows to local television and radio stations,” Collins said last month during an earlier stage of the deliberation. “In Maine, this funding supports everything from emergency communications in rural areas to coverage of high school basketball championships and [a] locally produced high school quiz show. Nationally produced television programs such as Antiques Roadshow, Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood, are also enjoyed by many throughout our country.”"
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