GOP moderates could sink Trump’s plan to cut $1B from PBS, NPR funding

The fate of President Donald Trump, which costs $ 9.4 billion, can be based on the shoulders of a handful of moderate Republicans in the House of Representatives.

The House of Representatives is scheduled to consider this procedure on Thursday afternoon, which reduces $ 8.3 billion of funds to the United States for International Development (USAID) and a little more than one billion dollars from the Public Broadcasting Corporation, which directs federal funds to NPR and PBS.

But it is known that at least four legislators of the Republican Party have expressed at least some concerns about different aspects of the package.

Republican leaders in the House of Representatives have a majority of three seats in the room, which means that any opposition after that may flood the bill.

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Not none of the four Republicans-actors Mark Amodei, R-Nev. ; David Valdou, R-Calif. ; Nicole Malekays, RN.Y; Without Bacon, R-NB. They said how they will vote on the bill. They all agreed to a procedural vote to allow discussion about this measure.

But Amodei, the co -chair of the General Broadcasting Assembly, told Fox News Digital on Wednesday afternoon that he was not worried about the national brands of NPR and PBS, which he admitted with the concerns of the Republican Party, and that his fear was filling in financing for the smaller local ports that relied on federal funding to inform people in the areas he enjoys less than arrival.

“These are not the people who make the liberation fluctuations that turn you on the bird,” Amani has argued for his Republican colleagues. “It is a kind of important pieces of infrastructure in their societies.”

“A full range of red provinces” depends on the financing of public broadcasting.

“It is easier for citizens to raise money if they have to compensate for some financing who have lost more than these men,” he said.

Valdu, who represents a swing area in California, told Politico that he was not sure whether this procedure would pass.

He refused to clarify his fears on Fox News Digital, and his office did not respond to the clarification request.

Representative David Valdou, R-Calif, did not want. In discussing his fears. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Meanwhile, Malikikis told correspondents on Wednesday that she had met the Republican voters in her area who wanted to fund PBS – but her real interest is the process.

“I think there are many questions that members have regarding the programs that will be cut specifically. This is a wide view of the public accounts. We, at the end of the day, the congress with the power of the wallet. We are the ones who are supposed to determine where the financing is going. This gives a lot of appreciation to the White House to do it incorrectly.

“I think there are a large number of members who have concerns about it. And whether the members will vote with yes or no different story in this place. But certainly, reservations … and we will see how things go.”

Payon, one of the three Republicans in the House of Representatives representing an area won by former Vice President Kamala Harris in 2024, for reporters on Tuesday morning that he was feeling improving towards legislation after obtaining assurances that foreign aid discounts would not turn into money for critical medical research.

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He did not say whether his previous concerns about PBS and NPR were mitigated, and he did not say how he would vote on the bill.

Bacon told reporters last week, “He bother me, because I have a great relationship with Nebraska’s public radio and television.”

Fox News Digital communicate directly with bacon and his office to clarify about his current position.

The deputy, Don Bacon, said, R-NB. He was discussing his concerns with home leaders. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

The proposal of $ 9.4 billion is called the rescue package, a mechanism for the White House to prevent the financing of Congress approved from the Congress.

Once he moves to Capitol Hill, in front of the legislators 45 days to agree to propose the Bible operations, otherwise it is considered rejected.

Such measures only need a simple majority in the House of Representatives and the Senate to pass. But this is not easy with the delicate majority of the Republicans in both rooms.

If it is approved, Republican leaders hope that the bill will be the first among several packages to rescue the codification of spending discounts set by the government efficiency management at Elon Musk (DOGE).

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Musk started with the goal of finding $ 2 trillion of federal waste, but it ended with about $ 180 billion.

The leaders of the Republican Party in the House of Representatives praised the proposal during their weekly press conference on Tuesday.

“These logical discounts,” said council president Mike Johnson.