Tommy Tuberville Praises Funding Cuts to NPR: ‘Farmers Are Not Gonna Miss This’

Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) praised federal funding cuts to public broadcasting entities like NPR and PBS, saying, “Farmers are not gonna miss this.”

In a Friday appearance on Laura Ingraham‘s The Ingraham Angle, Tuberville claimed that 90% of NPR content was left-leaning.

“There was very little right. Anything positive about the right was never on,” Tuberville said. “We were about 30 years too late. This should have been gone a long time ago. People can get their news and weather. Farmers are not gonna miss this. It’s been a disaster. It is a left-wing propaganda network. It is gone, and thank God.”

His statements come as House Republicans voted late Thursday night to strip more than $9 billion in funding from foreign aid and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which finances more than 1,500 PBS, NPR, and local radio and television stations across the United States.

The legislation now only requires a signature from President Trump to become law.

In response to the bill, NPR CEO Katherine Maher said: “Nearly three in four Americans say they rely on their public radio stations for alerts and news for their public safety.”

Ingraham and Tuberville are of the mindset that this fear is overstated.

“Democrats are losing a propaganda machine, and it’s not sitting too well with them,” said Ingraham.