During a press gaggle on Friday, Director of the United States Office of Management and Budget Russell Vought spoke about cutting funding to Corporation For Public Broadcasting.
00:00What's that? So we have our first rescissions package up on Congress. We had a great vote in the House. We have a second vote next week. I am confident that they will pass the bill. I'll be up there on Tuesday to answer any additional questions. I've already answered many questions on this front. But we think it's a very important step for Congress to show that they are willing to pass the doge cuts.
00:30People say, why is it a $9 billion package? It's a $9 billion package because we want to see, is Congress serious about that? Senator Kennedy has had some incredible floor speeches on this very issue. Is Congress serious about passing and making the doge cuts permanent? Or are we going to have to continue to use our executive tools on that?
00:51The president put out a great truth social last night, the extent to which we have been talking in this town as conservatives, as Republicans, about defunding corporations for public broadcasting for a very long time.
01:04We are now on the verge of being able to do that. And it's important that we finally take that opportunity and not fall back in kind of the tired old excuses that have defended that program for so long.
