Senator Marshall: There Are Better Uses for $9 Billion Than Socialist Radio Stations
Senator Marshall Joins Fox Business to Talk About The Rescissions Package
Washington – On Thursday, U.S. Senator Roger Marshall, M.D. (R-Kansas), joined David Webb and Dagen McDowell on Fox Business’ The Bottom Line to discuss the Senate passing the President’s rescissions package and the partisan bias of NPR and PBS.
Click HERE or on the image above to watch Senator Marshall’s full interview.
On why it was important to cut funding for NPR and PBS:
“That’s just fine with me, David. The backdrop of this is $37 trillion of national debt. We’re spending $7 trillion here, only taking in $5 trillion. We’ve got a budget issue amongst us. And here we’re spending a billion dollars on public television. Look, I don’t wish them any ill will. They certainly are a left-leaning organization to be polite about it, but here you’re using taxpayer money to run an advertisement against a politician, right?
“So anyway, we just thought… It’s not the best use of money, let’s put it that way. If I had the choice between spending a billion dollars on public radio, public television, versus rural hospitals, I’m going to pick rural hospitals.”
On what America should do with the savings instead:
“So I think the big picture, I would ask Americans is, if the President identifies waste, fraud, or abuse, what [do] you expect him to do with it? Well, I think we would expect him to be frugal and get rid of that. So, that’s exactly what we did here. We trimmed back. It’s only $9 billion, it’s only $9 billion, but again, that could help keep rural hospitals open. Maybe we could have more food. There’s lots of other things, better things to do with $9 billion, including paying off the national debt, which is the biggest long-term threat our grandchildren will ever face.”
On the fake news narrative around severe weather and public broadcasting:
“Yeah, once upon a time, there was probably a place for government funding. But when you’re in Kansas, we’re in Tornado Alley. And when there’s a tornado system coming towards you, heavy, severe thunderstorms, you’re going to tune to a local TV station with the local meteorologist with the radar. And then if you’re asleep, you have a special warning system. I don’t know anyone that turns to public broadcasting during these types of emergencies. That’s just a fallacy out there. I think there are plenty of other alternatives to your point. We would probably go to a radio station, but most likely, we want a local television with a locally trained meteorologist.”
On how public broadcasting has been turned into an arm of the Democrat party:
“So, they’re getting out a leftist message; these public broadcasts have been turned into another tool of the leftist socialists. That’s all they become significantly left. Yes, they’ve got some good programs, but we don’t want to use government funding for such a program as this; there are better things to do with the money.”
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