{"id":129932,"date":"2024-11-25T14:33:57","date_gmt":"2024-11-25T07:33:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=129932"},"modified":"2024-11-25T14:33:57","modified_gmt":"2024-11-25T07:33:57","slug":"mtg-calls-america-spoiled-threatens-to-defund-npr-and-toilets-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=129932","title":{"rendered":"MTG Calls America &#8216;Spoiled,&#8217; Threatens to Defund NPR and &#8216;Toilets in Africa&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tRep. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/marjorie-taylor-greene\/\" id=\"auto-tag_marjorie-taylor-greene\" data-tag=\"marjorie-taylor-greene\">Marjorie Taylor Greene<\/a>, who has been tapped to lead a House subcommittee connected to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/politics-news\/elon-musk-vivek-ramaswamy-trump-department-of-government-efficiency-doge-1235164306\/\">the new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)<\/a> run by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, has named her targets for investigation and defunding. They include: NPR, \u201ctoilets in Africa,\u201d \u201csex apps in Malaysia,\u201d sanctuary cities, and the Pentagon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tIn a Sunday interview with Fox News\u2019 Maria Bartiromo, Greene said <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Acyn\/status\/1860709066177466587\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">America has been \u201creally spoiled for a long time,\u201d<\/a> calling the federal government \u201cone of the worst abusers of American\u2019s tax dollars and the American people\u2019s trust.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tShe promised to comb through \u201cevery single government department, program, grant programs, contracts\u201d to identify what she deems as waste.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cWhen we look into a deep dive into this massive problem that\u2019s caused America to be 36 trillion dollars in debt, we\u2019re going to have to go into all kinds of buckets. And that\u2019s how I\u2019ll be separating things on the oversight subcommittee on DOGE,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Acyn\/status\/1860706769053552979\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">She continued<\/a>, \u201cWe\u2019ll be looking at everything from government-funded media program like NPR, that spread nothing but Democrat propaganda. We\u2019ll be going into grant programs that fund things like sex apps in Malaysia, toilets in Africa.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tNPR has long been a target of conservatives who don\u2019t like its reporting. In April, after NPR CEO Katherine Maher declined to testify at a committee hearing about alleged biased reporting, the Republican House majority <a href=\"https:\/\/d1dth6e84htgma.cloudfront.net\/04_30_24_Letter_to_NPR_with_Hearing_Invitation_2_aa76bcfe12.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sent a letter<\/a> to Maher demanding she report to Congress about NPR newsroom employees\u2019 political affiliations. Musk fired shots at NPR when his company, X, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/culture\/culture-news\/npr-quits-twitter-false-state-affiliated-media-tag-1234713528\/\">added a tag to the media outlet\u2019s posts<\/a> that identified it as \u201cstate-affiliated media,\u201d later changing the label to \u201cgovernment-funded media.\u201d NPR pushed back, saying identifying it with those terms is false and misleading, and it ceased posting on X.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThe alleged \u201csex apps in Malaysia\u201d Greene mentioned is a reference to <a href=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2024\/07\/allied-health-sciences-professor-uses-mhealth-tools-to-improve-hiv-and-substance-use-prevention-efforts-in-malaysia\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">JomCare<\/a>, an app created by Roman Shrestha, an assistant professor in the University of Connecticut\u2019s Department of Allied Health Sciences, with a $3.4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health. The app is designed to increase access to harm reduction services for gay and bisexual men engaging in chemsex \u2014 the practice of taking psychoactive drugs before or during sexual activities \u2014 with the goal of reducing the spread of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections.<\/p>\n<section class=\"brands-most-popular \/\/ editors-pick-module lrv-u-margin-tb-2 lrv-u-border-a-2 u-box-shadow-5-5 lrv-u-padding-lr-1 a-span1 u-padding-b-1@tablet u-overflow-hidden\">\n<h2 id=\"section-heading\" class=\"c-heading larva  lrv-u-text-align-center u-border-color-black a-font-theme-primary-xxs lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-letter-spacing-0063 lrv-u-padding-t-050 u-padding-b-0375@tablet lrv-u-padding-b-050@mobile-max lrv-u-border-b-2\">\n<p>\t\tEditor\u2019s picks<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tAlthough Greene did not expand on what she meant by \u201ctoilets in Africa,\u201d she could be referring to USAID funding for sanitation programs in Africa that reduce the spread of disease and bring clean water to communities in need. As USAID <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usaid.gov\/water-and-sanitation\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">writes on their website<\/a>, \u201cWater and sanitation are essential to advance global health, prosperity, stability, and resilience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tAlso on Greene\u2019s hit list are the Department of Defense. \u201cI want to talk to the people at the Pentagon and ask them why they can\u2019t find billions of dollars every single year and why they fail their audit,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cBut not just that,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Acyn\/status\/1860707706874802230\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Greene continued<\/a>. \u201cI\u2019d like to talk to the governors of sanctuary states and the mayors of sanctuary cities and have them come before our committee and explain why they deserve federal dollars if they\u2019re going to harbor illegal criminal aliens in their states and their cities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cWe\u2019re going to look into every single aspect, and we don\u2019t care about people\u2019s feelings,\u201d Greene concluded.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tOf course, rather than going on a federal budget witch hunt, another way to reduce the deficit is to roll back the massive tax cuts for the wealthy that Trump signed in 2017. But considering Republicans are already planning to extend the cuts, even though doing so will further reduce federal revenue <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/11\/23\/us\/politics\/trump-tax-cuts-republicans-deficit.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">by approximately $4 trillion<\/a>, that route seems unlikely. Instead, we\u2019ll get whatever circus Musk, Ramaswamy, and Greene can conjure up.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/politics-news\/mtg-america-spoiled-defund-npr-toilets-africa-1235179124\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. 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