(WHTM) — Sen. Dave McCormick (R-PA) blamed cuts to public media on the organizations stripped of their funding.

The Senate voted Thursday to claw back $9 billion in federal funding for global aid programs and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, sending the package requested by President Donald Trump to the House for a final vote, where it passed Friday.

Public radio and television stations around the country, including PBS and NPR, could struggle without the funding. Pennsylvania’s junior senator defended the cuts.

“NPR and public broadcasting, it’s essentially adopted a very liberal agenda,” McCormick said. “So, what you have is taxpayer money subsidizing a particular political view, whether it’s a very conservative view or a very liberal view. In this case, a very liberal view. That’s not what taxpayer dollars are for. NPR essentially did this to itself.”

The White House suggested this won’t be the last time it takes back funding Congress has already allocated.