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Brian Schatz: “Public radio is not just National Public Radio. If you are…”

Featuring: Brian Schatz, Democratic | U.S. Senate from Hawaii

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Published | Video Starts at 02:44

It reduces funding for Ukraine. It reduces funding for global health. It did reduce funding for pepfar. It continues to reduce funding for public television and public radio. By the way, Public radio is not just National Public Radio. If you are on a reservation, if you are in a very rural part of your state, it's often not just the only radio station, the only communications infrastructure that exists in a rural area. So it's the only platform for news. That's true. It's also the only emergency communications infrastructure because still many places across the United States lack Internet. (02:44–03:03)

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Asserts that public radio is often the only communications infrastructure in rural areas.

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