Leavitt Calls NPR and PBS Partisan Outlets Funded by Taxpayers

Name: "Leavitt Calls NPR and PBS Partisan Outlets Funded by Taxpayers"
Uploaded: 2025-07-17
Duration: 1 min 33 s
Description: "White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt says NPR and PBS are, as she stated it, partisan left-wing outlets rather than honest news organizations, and that the administration does not believe taxpayer funding for them is a good use of the public's money."

July 17, 2025 · The White House · 0:01:33

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What happened

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt criticized NPR and PBS in remarks carried by the White House. Leavitt said, as she stated it, that the two outlets are not honest news organizations but partisan left-wing outlets funded by the taxpayers, and that the administration does not believe that is a good use of the taxpayers’ time and money.

Leavitt cited, as she stated them, several examples: that in 2020 NPR refused to cover the Hunter Biden laptop story in the run-up to the election, saying the assertions did not amount to much; that a former NPR CEO had called President Trump racist in the Oval Office, shared a photo of herself wearing a Biden for president campaign hat, and served on the board of a Soros-funded activist group, as Leavitt characterized it; that in 2020 PBS’s White House correspondent characterized President Trump’s Mount Rushmore speech as a love letter to white resentment; and that in 2017 PBS devoted an entire panel to what it means to be woke and white privilege.

The White House description adds, as stated there, that PBS handed January 6 footage to the Justice Department without consent, and frames the administration as done footing the bill for partisan propaganda.

Why it matters

The remarks are part of the administration’s case about how the federal government should operate and spend taxpayer money, stated in the speaker’s own attributed terms.

Sources: The White House, “Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt on NPR and PBS: “These are not honest news organizations.””, 2025-07-17 (official upload, embedded above; published 2025-07-17). Transcript via Supadata (private research store, paraphrased and attributed, not republished). All figures and characterizations as stated by the speakers.