After the Senate passed President Trump’s rescission package early Thursday morning that, among other things, clawed back federal funding for PBS and NPR, CBS Mornings teed up an interview it did with NPR CEO Katherine Maher, who claimed the move “would be a tremendous tragedy.”
Co-host Nate Burleson introduced the segment, “Breaking overnight, senators stay up late to vote for major cuts on federal spending on NPR and PBS. Senators slashed spending on foreign aid. In all, the budget cuts amount to around $9 billion. Nikole Killion looks at who will be hit the hardest.”
Nine billion is hardly “major,” but Killion’s report immediately started spinning for public broadcasting as it began with a clip of Elmo saying, “Hi, welcome to Sesame Street.”
