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(CNSNews.com) — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), interviewed Tuesday on National Public Radio, began with an endorsement of the liberal media outlet:

“I love NPR,” Reid told host Michele Norris right after she introduced him. Reid went on the show to discuss the debt-ceiling deal that Obama signed on Tuesday.

The Republican-led House in March passed a bill to block all federal funding for NPR and its parent company, but the move was symbolic, since the bill cannot get through the Democrat-led Senate. Not a single House Democrat voted for the bill, and both Reid and the White House expressed their opposition at the time.

Conservatives question why taxpayer money should be used to partially fund a broadcast outlet that also is funded by liberal-leaning groups — and that displays a liberal bias in its reporting.

“Our nation is on the edge of bankruptcy and Congress must make some tough choices to rein in spending, but ending taxpayer subsidies of public broadcasting should be an easy decision,” said Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.), who sponsored the Senate bill to defund NPR.