President Donald Trump has said that he would “love” to defund the state-funded media outlets NPR and PBS.

While speaking to reporters on Tuesday, he was asked if he would “be interested in defunding and taking away taxpayer dollars to NPR and PBS,” Trump responded that he would “love” to take away their funding.

“I would love to do that. I think it’s very unfair. It’s been very biased. The whole group, I mean, a whole group of them and frankly, there’s plenty of — look at all the media you have right now. There’s plenty of coverage,” Trump said.

“I was from a different age, and they spent more money than any other network of its type ever conceived, so the kind of money that’s being wasted and it’s a very biased view. You know that better than anybody and I’d be honored to see it end. We’re well covered. Look at all the people that we have here today. We’re well covered and we don’t need it and it’s a waste of money especially. I don’t even know what DOGE’s recommendation is. I assume their recommendation is to close them up.”

The comments from Trump come ahead of hearing that will be held in Congress tomorrow by the Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency, chaired by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA).
NPR head Katherine Maher, as well as PBS head Paula Kerger will be testifying before the committee and answering questions related to what the committee said is “demonstrably biased news coverage.”

The hearing, titled “Anti-American Airwaves: Holding the heads of NPR and PBS Accountable,” will be held at 10 am.