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Ever since Donald Trump arrived at the White House for the second time in January,
he's been following through on his promises to cut federal spending at breakneck speed.
Aided by Elon Musk and his so called Department of Government Efficiency,
he's taken a scythe to public agencies, slashing jobs, funding and even federally owned real estate.
His latest target, Public media.
The President wants to defund both NPR and pbs.
And this week,
fierce Trump loyalist Marjorie Taylor Greene led a hearing demanding bosses of the broadcasters justify their government funding.
NPR and PBS have increasingly become radical echo chambers for a narrow audience of mostly urban liberals and progressives who generally looked down on rural America.
Spoiler alert, she wasn't convinced.