Friday, October 04, 2013

After Shutdown: Administration Gives $445,000,000 to Corporation for Public Broadcasting

After Shutdown: Administration Gives $445,000,000 to Corporation for Public Broadcasting | CNS News:
"On the first day of the “shutdown” of the federal government, when members of the U.S. Senate were going to the well of their house to point out that the shutdown would prevent the National Institutes of Health from starting clinical trials for cancer patients and others facing possibly terminal illnesses, the administration was giving $445,000,000 to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, according to the Daily Treasury Statement.

That means PBS NewsHour, National Public Radio and Sesame Street got a taxpayer subsidy during the shutdown, but not would-be cancer patients at the NIH."

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