Conservative activists have waited decades to defund PBS and NPR. They are finally getting their chance | CNN Business

Richard Nixon tried. Ronald Reagan tried. President Donald Trump tried during his first term in office.

All three Republican presidents wanted to strip taxpayer support for PBS and NPR stations. But all three men were stymied by Congress.

This time is different, though. Trump, emboldened in his second term, sent a package of spending cuts to Capitol Hill earlier this month, and on Thursday afternoon the House of Representatives voted to pass the measure, 214-212.

Four Republicans sided with Democrats in rejecting the rare bill known as a “rescissions”

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