July 19, 2025
FROM CONGRESSWOMAN CLAUDIA TENNEY: “Taxpayer-funded NPR claims to serve rural America, but what are they promoting in Upstate NY? “Gender is a Negotiation” Whether You Realize It or Not (NCPR) One Teen Explains Gender Dysphoria in a Unique Way: With a Toilet Plunger (NCPR). This isn’t public service. It’s propaganda.”
FROM CONGRESSWOMAN ELISE STEFANIK: “I voted to save the American taxpayer $9 billion of unobligated bloated spending via a rescissions package including defunding NPR, a promise I vowed to deliver to #NY21. Promises made, promises kept. NPR and NCPR-affiliated reporters continually publish false and defamatory stories. In 2022, NCPR falsely reported that I Contributed to the attack against Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s husband Paul. In 2021, North Country Public Radio’s former News and Public Affairs Director Martha Foley used her taxpayer-funded email account to campaign for Democrats in #NY21 district, a violation of journalist integrity NPR claims to hold. NPR also infamously published false claims in a book review of Hunter Biden’s memoir that his laptop was Russian propaganda. It was forced to issue a correction, referencing the now-debunked Politico story on October 19, 2020, which used “dozens of former intel officials” to push a false and misleading narrative about the origins of Hunter’s laptop.”
