All posts tagged "Npr"

A CNN fact-checker on Tuesday called out President Donald Trump's rambling speech for its 'litany of lies."

Daniel Dale described how several points that Trump made during his nearly two-hour-long press conference on the first anniversary of the inauguration of his second term were hard to keep up with — and that each topic the president attempted to hit was full of confusing comments and misinformation.

"There are just so many. I'm struggling to keep track of it," Dale said. "You know, $18 trillion in investment in the U.S., that's a fictional figure, 600% reduction in prescription drug prices. That's a fictional figure. 'I ended eight unknowable wars.' Eight is a fictional figure. 'We inherited inflation at a historic high.' No. He inherited a 3% inflation just a little bit above where it is now, although it did hit about a 40-year high in June 2022, more than two years before he returned to office."...

MAGA shamed several Republican lawmakers Thursday afternoon who broke with the party as the House of Representatives passed the first round of DOGE cuts by a vote of 214 to 212.

The measure, which slashes $9.4 billion from the United States Agency for International Development, NPR, and PBS, now heads to the Senate.

But Many MAGA fans were sure to point out the four "RINOs" who voted against the bill....

Influential Republican Rep. Mark Amodei (R-NV) has joined with Democrats to oppose the Trump administration's threat to cut $1.1 billion from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, according to Politico.

The proposed cuts are part of a recissions package introduced last week by House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA) "to cut $9.4 billion previously greenlit by Congress, mainly for foreign aid," the report stated.

Reporter Calen Razor called Amodei's opposition "a potential problem for GOP leaders who need near-unity within their party to pass the White House’s request that Congress revoke billions of dollars it has already approved" for the funding arm of PBS and NPR....

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) exploded at a reporter with the UK's Sky News who tried to ask a question about the Signal messaging chat leak that has caused much consternation within the Trump administration and its MAGA acolytes.

At a press conference Wednesday, reporter Martha Kelner approached Greene, who immediately asked, "Wait, what country are you from?"

When Kelner answered she was from the UK, Greene became enraged. ...

Both mental health therapists and the veterans they serve are "suffering" on several fronts due to President Donald Trump's job cuts and anti DEI policies, according to a new report by National Public Radio.

First, the therapists themselves say they're terrified of DOGE's plan to eliminate some 80,000 jobs within the Department of Veterans Affairs.

One mental health care provider who went by the name 'Lynn' for this report, told NPR's Katia Riddle, "I've been really struggling with my concentration and my ability to focus when I'm at work, because I feel like I have this ax over my head all the time."...

Dozens of J6 rioters who were issued blanket pardons by President Donald Trump had violent criminal histories that judges considered when determining the severity of their sentences, according to new reporting from National Public Radio.

President Trump made good on his campaign promise on his first day back in office by granting clemency to everyone charged or convicted in the 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, including those found to have violently attacked police officers.

"While many people had no criminal record prior to committing crimes on Jan. 6, NPR has identified dozens of defendants with prior convictions or pending charges for crimes including rape, sexual abuse of a minor, domestic violence, manslaughter, production of child sexual abuse material and drug trafficking," the news outlet reported....