
At 2 am, Republicans just passed a bill to defund public broadcasting and lifesaving aid because Trump told them to—they wouldn't even protect rural radio or emergency alerts.
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At 2 am, Republicans just passed a bill to defund public broadcasting and lifesaving aid because Trump told them to—they wouldn't even protect rural radio or emergency alerts.

It's one of the great outrages of this package.

We're not just putting PBS at risk here, we're putting millions of Americans who depend on local media for life-saving information [at risk].

Do not start now. Not when we are working, at this very moment, in a bipartisan way to pass our spending bills.

I rise today to celebrate Roman Wagner, a 6-year-old from Adina with leukemia, who became Centralia Police Department's Chief for a Day. There are 18 law enforcement agencies who take part in Chief for a Day, which honors the bravery…

But as a committee who has thought a lot about storms lately, we are not just putting PBS at risk here, we are putting millions of Americans who depend on local media for lifesaving information at risk. And what is in this rescission…

I think he is hiding something and he’s just pouring fuel on the fire.

we are about to vote on this package, but I wanted to first make sure my colleagues understood that we are not just voting on whether local news stations shut down or whether communities can get information in an emergency or whether or…

Absolutely. We think that the files should be released. We should have testimony from Maxwell.

It’s painfully clear why Republicans are doing this.

I am from Washington State, and in the Pacific Northwest, hydropower makes up the majority of our energy mix. That is why I am very proud to lead this effort to enhance transparency and really help streamline the non-Federal hydropower…

I'm very concerned we're in an endless summer of trade war, tariffs and chaos.

I think that's what we're going to try to draw attention to.

I guarantee you, as the next quarter results come in, I'm sure we will see some effects of these tariffs.

What the real question is, is what can we do to improve the weather forecasting of this nation.

We should be the smartest government in the world, using technology, analyzing the data.

It's not community to community. It's a national system.