Leavitt calls out NPR CEO for claiming ‘risk to public safety’ amid funding cuts

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt responded to the CEO of NPR, Katherine Maher, claiming these cuts would be “a real risk” to American safety. At the White House Press briefing, Leavitt defended the cuts by listing a number of instances NPR and other public broadcasting had shown bias in their reporting.

“This is a taxpayer funded organization.” Leavitt said. “In 2018, that same CEO that you’re talking about called the president in the Oval Office, who nearly 80 million Americans elected, she called him racist.” 

“NPR refused to cover the Hunter Biden laptop scandal in the run up to the election,” Leavitt said. “They said their assertions don’t amount to much, writing they did not want to waste the listeners and readers time on

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