On Wednesday night, MSNBC’s Jen Psaki made biased and flat out false claims in the lead up to the recent passing of HR 4 by the Senate early Thursday morning, during The Briefing. Psaki and her guest, Arizona Senator Mark Kelly (D), tried their best to argue against the cutting of taxpayer funding to PBS and NPR by omitting key details.
Psaki led up to the interview by making egregiously misleading and false claims about the rescission package:
Republicans are using this as a way to codify some of the cuts proposed by DOGE into law. Specifically, cuts to public media and foreign aid. The Republican package would claw back $8.3 billion in foreign aid, which includes subsidies for American farmers who grow food that USAID purchases and gives to starving people all around the world. It would also take away 1.1 billion dollars from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which provides funding to NPR and PBS.
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