Today’s Catch Up
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NPR offering staff buyouts after receiving $113 million in charitable gifts
NPR announced it is offering buyouts to staffers just weeks after it received over $100 million in charitable gifts.
According to a report from NPR's media correspondent David Folkenflik, NPR CEO Katherine Maher wrote in a memo that the outlet "has to fill a gap of $8 million in its $300-million annual budget" after President Donald Trump and GOP lawmakers cut federal funding last year and that NPR is expected to "earn $15 million less in station fees this year and is anticipating a drop in corporate sponsorship revenue."
GOP Rep. Thomas Massie defiant as Trump seeks to oust him in primary: "I'm going to win"
Republican Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky has faced a barrage of attacks from President Trump heading into Tuesday's primary against former Navy SEAL Ed Gallrein, who has the president's endorsement.
But Massie doesn't appear to be sweating it, even after several of Mr. Trump's perceived adversaries have suffered primary defeats stemming from the president's ire — most recently GOP Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana.





