WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) joined Ingraham Angle on Fox News to tout the Senate passing President Trump’s first rescissions package that cuts taxpayer funding for woke propaganda outlets like NPR and PBS.
Excerpts from the interview can be found below and the full interview can be viewed on YouTube or Rumble.
INGRAHAM: “Senator, when you think about what the complaints were—a lot of them were centered on the stories that NPR—let’s focus on NPR for a moment and NewsHour, but NPR especially—chose to cover. So it was the plight of transgender kids, it was the ice flows getting smaller in Antarctica, it was the various other minority interests, it was anti-Trump, but a lot of the time it was the stories they covered and not the stuff let’s say conservative parents were worried about—keeping parents out of school during COVID, etcetera, etcetera.”
TUBERVILLE: “Well Laura, we did our research on this. We don’t just vote on something and say we’re going to cut something. 90% of the product that they were putting out on NPR was left-leaning. Very little right. Anything positive about the right was never on. And so, we did our due diligence. We looked at it all. We were about 30 years too late. This should have been gone a long time ago. After the internet, after the Weather Channel all over the news for 24 hours. People can get their news [without public broadcasting]. They can get their weather [without public broadcasting]. Farmers are not going to miss this. [NPR and PBS has] been a disaster. It is a left-wing propaganda network. It is gone. And thank God.”
INGRAHAM: “Jason, of course the Democrats losing a propaganda machine—it’s not sitting too well with them. They’re mad. Watch. […]”
“Jason, they are fighting to keep funding organizations that American taxpayers partly funded and knew and understood with their very eyes—were biased. But they think they can win on saying, ‘Oh, you killed Big Bird.’ That’s gonna be their argument. ‘You killed Big Bird. Put us back into control.’”
CHAFFETZ: “Yeah, ‘people are going to die’ is just sort of the common week in and week out thing. Seriously? By not having PBS broadcasts down in Blanding, Utah? You think people are going to die because of that? I’m tired of paying it. We’re $36 trillion dollars in debt, folks. We gotta make some cuts around here. We lived high on the hog when you Democrats had all the control, just kept spending money, wasn’t responsible, and for that CEO to go before Congress and go back on television and start lecturing us about how fair and balanced she is—are you kidding me? How about looking at all the stories? Because Congress did, and she is flat-out, totally wrong, and now she doesn’t have any money—at least not from taxpayers.”
INGRAHAM: “Well Senator, last year a whistleblower actually testified—a whistleblower of sorts, he’s a former staffer of NPR—and he was like, ‘Look, there’s credence to what the conservatives are saying. The people who work there, the people who are getting paid, making salaries—they all think the same way.’ I’m summing up his point of view. So, insiders were even blowing the lid off this.”
TUBERVILLE: “Yeah, we looked at the employment of the NPR and the people that were employed there and did some background stuff. They were all DEI. They were all woke. And so, they get what they asked for. At the end of the day, they thought that Democrats were going to continue to control [the government] for years and years and years, and they stuck their foot in their mouth by spending way too much money for several years—open borders. Trump gets back in, and he was bound and determined to get rid of this. Now, it was like pulling teeth to get this thing passed. We almost didn’t get it done because of the three of four people on the Republican side. It was close, just like the [One] Big Beautiful Bill was. But, at the end of the day, we got it done.”
INGRAHAM: “Well Senator, Jason—both of you—thank you very much tonight.”
Senator Tommy Tuberville represents Alabama in the United States Senate and is a member of the Senate Armed Services, Agriculture, Veterans’ Affairs, HELP and Aging Committees.
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