{"id":8249,"date":"2025-04-15T04:20:17","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T04:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/white-house-to-ask-congress-to-cut-9b-in-funds-including-for-npr-pbs-usaid\/"},"modified":"2025-04-15T04:20:17","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T04:20:17","slug":"white-house-to-ask-congress-to-cut-9b-in-funds-including-for-npr-pbs-usaid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/white-house-to-ask-congress-to-cut-9b-in-funds-including-for-npr-pbs-usaid\/","title":{"rendered":"White House to ask Congress to cut $9B in funds, including for NPR, PBS, USAID"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The White House is preparing a rescission package that will seek to have Congress claw back more than $9 billion in approved funding through cuts to public broadcasting, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and agencies President Trump has sought to eliminate. A White House official confirmed to Blue Light News that the package will&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/5248448-white-house-rescission-package\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White House is preparing a rescission package that will seek to have Congress claw back more than $9 billion in approved funding through cuts to public broadcasting, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and agencies President Trump has sought to eliminate. A White House official confirmed to Blue Light News that the package [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8250,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}