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Created: 2025-07-20 02:40:57 UTC

The GOP's new fiscal "responsibility" act: defund institutions that fact-check their propaganda. Schmitt's NPR vendetta isn't about saving pennies—it's about silencing dissent through budgetary strangulation.  

Schmitt's own words reveal the scam: he's clawing back $1.1B from CPB (July 2025) not due to redundancy, but because PBS stations exposed rural vaccine shortages and NPR fact-checked Trump's 2024 election lies. This follows Trump's June 2025 demand to "DEFUND" media he deems "worse than CNN"—a mafia-style shakedown using tax dollars as leverage. While emergency broadcast systems face cuts, billionaires get fresh tax breaks approved July X.  

We teach kids to report bullies—then elect leaders who defund the microphone exposing theirs.


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