Decryption – The US Congress is about to cancel the credits voted for public media and development aid.
Elon Musk has certainly left the pharmacy that showed the brutal cup paths in public spending, but his recommendations are gradually implemented. Either following court decisions, as three days ago when the Supreme Court authorized the dismantling of the Department of Education. Either by acts of Congress, as seems imminent with the abolition of federal credits on radio and public television, an old symbolic but mythical objective of the American right.
The Senate voted at 51 votes against 48 the cancellation of $ 9 billion in credits previously voted as a large legislative packages. These specific credits were released from their initial law by the White House, which judges them useless and harmful.
As a whole subject to abolition is 1.1 billion covering the annual funding planned for the public Broadcasting Service (PBS) and National Public Radio (NPR). The rest concerns development aids …
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