Maybe PBS and NPR can be eliminated. After all, who thought four months ago that the Department of Education would be largely dismantled, USAID slashed, and thousands of government bureaucrats shown the door?
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Michael Chapman
President Donald Trump is not a libertarian, but some of his policies for downsizing the federal government certainly fall in the libertarian column. This is true, for instance, of the administration’s drive to defund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), which helps to fund PBS and NPR. Scholars at the Cato Institute have called on Congress for decades to stop subsidizing the CPB. With enough political momentum behind them, perhaps Congress can get it done this time.
