They wanted to add instead of the clean CR that keeps the government open for seven more weeks to allow us to finish the work, they proposed a wild list of partisan priorities. Among them They want to return a half a billion dollars to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to prop up left leaning and biased media organizations. We're not doing that. The American people don't want us to do that. We don't need the Corporation for Public Broadcasting funded by taxpayers anymore because we're in their age of ubiquitous media. (06:23–06:31)
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Asserts that Senate Democrats proposed returning $500 million to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
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