House mulls fixes to taxpayer-funded NPR’s liberal slant

Congress should eliminate or change the rules for taxpayer funding to National Public Radio because it reports news with a significant liberal bias, experts told the House on Wednesday.

Lawmakers on the Energy and Commerce Committee were eager to grill NPR President and CEO Katherine Maher about her left-wing posts on social media and her response to a whistleblower report from a company insider who said NPR journalists became overly focused on diversity and gender issues, as well as damaging the Trump presidency. 

But Ms. Maher, who in 2020 called Mr. Trump “a deranged, racist sociopath,” was a no-show on Capitol Hill.

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