Funding for clinical cancer trials and other life-saving
research under the National Institutes of Health was cut off in response to the
government slimdown, but it looks like the cookie monster will still be
knee-deep in chocolate chips (or is it carrots now?)
According to the Daily Treasury Statement and first reported
by CNS News, the administration dished out $445 million to the Corporation for
Public Broadcasting (CPB) on the first day of the slimdown, which means funds
for the likes of PBS Newshour, NPR and “Sesame Street” are being spent before
cancer research.
“It’s more than irresponsible, it is reprehensible. It’s an
‘in-your-face’ move by the administration, blatantly picking winners and losers
in this shutdown,” C. Edmund Wright, a columnist for Breitbart.com and American
Thinker, told FOX411. “Public broadcasting is a staple of liberal propaganda.”
And as Media
Research Center
“It certainly looks like ‘you scratch my back, and I’ll
scratch yours,” he continued. “Liberals see PBS and NPR as their own personal
sandbox, as a supposed balance of the ‘capitalist bias’ of the commercial
networks, as silly as that sounds.”
But the CPB defended their big payday, telling FOX411 in a
statement that their funding was "indispensable"and provide jobs for
thousands of people.
"The United States Treasury sent public broadcasters
their two-year advance appropriation -- a sum, approved by Congress in 2012 for
FY 2014, representing only 0.01% of the federal budget," said rep Kelly
Broadway. "Seventy percent of these indispensible dollars are promptly
sent to locally-owned and operated stations in cities and rural communities all
across the country, as they have been for most of the past 40 years. There, they provide jobs for more than twenty
thousand people who are working to support 'America ’s Largest Classroom' as
well as life-long learning for all Americans with our unique cultural, public
affairs and news programs."
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