House votes to claw back $9.4bn in spending including from NPR and PBS

Republicans target public broadcasters in rarely used gambit while also slashing global health programs

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3d ago

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To be clear, they're cutting an extra $9.4 Billion in services. Maybe it's used differently in British English but in the US "claw back" as an idiom generally refers to a win for an underdog party to keep something after a difficult fight, not a privileged party ending access to something.
- That's not at all what that means.
  
  Claw back implies money (or something else) has already been sent out and is trying to once again be retrieved from the receiving party.
- Whoever wrote the title was just trying to insinuate something extra vicious and violent in nature. It's a common part of our fair and unbiased media.
- This is just completely incorrect. Claw back in no way suggests an underdog.
Informed Americans are a threat to American conservatives and/or Republicans: it's best to keep them stupid.