Obama 'Strongly Opposes' NPR Defund Bill
The Hill reports:
The Obama administration said it "strongly opposes" a House measure to defund NPR, but stopped short of a veto threat.
The Obama administration on Thursday said it "strongly opposes" a House measure that would permanently defund NPR, but stopped short of making a veto threat.
The administration publicized its stance on the Republican-sponsored bill just a few hours before the House is expected to vote on it. In lieu of the move to ban funding, the Obama administration noted that the president's budget calls for "targeted reductions" to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), the main federal funding arm for NPR and the Public Broadcasting Service.
"The administration strongly opposes House passage of H.R. 1076, which would unacceptably prohibit federal funding of National Public Radio (NPR) and the use of Federal funds by public radio stations to acquire radio content," reads a statement from the Office of Management and Budget.
Should the bill pass Congress, the statement indicates that the president might not sign it into law, although the administration did not say specifically how President Obama would handle the bill.
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