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U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) appeared on Fox News' "Ingraham Angle" to discuss the Senate's approval of President Trump's first rescissions package, which includes cuts to federal funding for NPR and PBS. The measure targets what Tuberville and others describe as "woke propaganda outlets."

During the interview, host Laura Ingraham questioned the editorial choices made by NPR, highlighting their coverage of issues such as transgender youth, climate change in Antarctica, and minority interests. She contrasted these topics with concerns voiced by conservative parents.

Tuberville responded: “Well Laura, we did our research on this. We don’t just vote on something and say we’re going to cut something. 90% of the product that they were putting out on NPR was left-leaning. Very little right. Anything positive about the right was never on. And so, we did our due diligence. We looked at it all. We were about 30 years too late. This should have been gone a long time ago. After the internet, after the Weather Channel all over the news for 24 hours. People can get their news [without public broadcasting]. They can get their weather [without public broadcasting]. Farmers are not going to miss this. [NPR and PBS has] been a disaster. It is a left-wing propaganda network. It is gone. And thank God.”

Ingraham noted that Democrats are upset about losing what she called a "propaganda machine," suggesting that they may use arguments such as “You killed Big Bird” in response to the funding cuts.

Former Congressman Jason Chaffetz also weighed in: “Yeah, ‘people are going to die’ is just sort of the common week in and week out thing. Seriously? By not having PBS broadcasts down in Blanding, Utah? You think people are going to die because of that? I’m tired of paying it. We’re $36 trillion dollars in debt, folks. We gotta make some cuts around here. We lived high on the hog when you Democrats had all the control, just kept spending money, wasn’t responsible, and for that CEO to go before Congress and go back on television and start lecturing us about how fair and balanced she is—are you kidding me? How about looking at all the stories? Because Congress did, and she is flat-out, totally wrong, and now she doesn’t have any money—at least not from taxpayers.”

Ingraham referenced testimony from a former NPR staffer who supported claims of ideological uniformity within NPR’s workforce.

Tuberville added: “Yeah, we looked at the employment of the NPR and the people that were employed there and did some background stuff. They were all DEI. They were all woke. And so, they get what they asked for. At the end of the day, they thought that Democrats were going to continue to control [the government] for years and years and years, and they stuck their foot in their mouth by spending way too much money for several years—open borders. Trump gets back in, and he was bound and determined to get rid of this. Now, it was like pulling teeth to get this thing passed. We almost didn’t get it done because of the three or four people on the Republican side. It was close, just like the [One] Big Beautiful Bill was. But, at the end of the day, we got it done.”

Senator Tuberville serves Alabama in several Senate committees including Armed Services; Agriculture; Veterans’ Affairs; HELP; and Aging.