Watch: Amy Klobuchar Wants Us to Know the Disasters That Will Befall Us If We Defund NPR, PBS

The Senate took a critical procedural vote on Tuesday to advance the recissions package with more than $9 billion in spending cuts: $8.3 billion related to foreign aid programs and $1.1 billion related to NPR and PBS.

This bill includes some of the DOGE cuts that Elon Musk's team identified. The Senate has until July 18 to pass the package. This is the first of multiple bills incorporating DOGE cuts.

But the procedural vote was close, with Vice President JD Vance being called in to help pass it. It shouldn't have been close at all, but Sens. Susan Collins (R-ME), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), and Mitch McConnell (R-KY) voted no. It then has to go back to the House to pass because of amendments. The Senate has until Friday, July 18, to approve the package.

But when it's that close, you get Democrats shoveling up a lot of bull to move the vote their way. Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) was furious that the bill passed the procedural hurdle. She appeared on MSNBC to rail against it.

Amy Klobuchar fearmongers: People will not get alerts for natural disasters without PBS and NPR! pic.twitter.com/EEJQtyBQUX
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) July 16, 2025

You shouldn't rethink anything to save money for the American people - that was her first point. It's not much of a point, however.

Klobuchar said if they can change things, "The sky's the limit." Yes, exactly. Let's rethink the wasteful spending. Let's evaluate all the spending, line by line, to make sure it makes sense. Indeed, the "sky is the limit" - if you care about debt and saving money for the American people.

Then she acted like PBS was essential to have around during disasters. She pushed the Democratic narrative that people who live in rural/remote areas don't have access to anything for information except NPR and PBS. She claimed the outlets were necessary to inform people about weather disasters. She acts like there isn't the internet, phones, or any one of a dozen things that people will check before they turn to PBS for information. If only a fraction of PBS' money is from federal dollars, how would this affect any such broadcasts? Is she saying this is so vital, but that PBS would ax it? It's just an excuse.

The post was inundated on X with people saying none of them rely on PBS alerts to know what to do about the weather. And why would they?

Oh noes!

However did anyone get disaster warnings without PBS & NPR?!

Oh, right. The state governments. The warning sirens. Radios.

Then there’s this new thing called smart phones. There are alerts for weather, missing kids, etc.@amyklobuchar is dumb & desperate.
— 𝙹𝚞𝚜𝚝 𝚊 𝚌𝚑𝚒𝚌𝚔🐥𝚝𝚠𝚎𝚎𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚐 (@KristineAz) July 16, 2025

The Democratic arguments are so bad that they help prove why the government shouldn't be funding any such media.

Then, too, the "aid" that she's crying to maintain involved all kinds of ridiculous spending that we've covered before. It's about time that got axed as well.

Democrats are out of viable arguments at this point, so they're left with bad ones.

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