These people just suck. Public broadcasting provides so much to the communities they serve. I'm so angry, just everything that is remotely nice or helpful.

I know that's the point. It just feels awful.

$134 million to deploy troops into LA for fucking nothing

9.4 Billion over what

We increased spending by about 1 TRILLION between military spending increases and tax reductions on the rich.

That's the proportional equivalent of saying we increased spending by $10 and then saved 1 penny from gutting out public news funding that we all depend on for information.

"claw back" steal, it's called stealing. And npr should take them to city under the ftca.

To be clear, they're cutting an extra $9.4 Billion in services. Maybe it's used differently in British English but in the US "claw back" as an idiom generally refers to a win for an underdog party to keep something after a difficult fight, not a privileged party ending access to something.

Informed Americans are a threat to American conservatives and/or Republicans: it's best to keep them stupid.