Calling it "an easy decision," South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint along with Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn have introduced a bill to officially remove all government funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and thus National Public Radio. Citing the issues of high salaries for their leadership and the growing national debt, the two conservative Republican Senators believe the time has come to end the government practice of supporting public broadcasting. DeMint says, "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." However, funding for NPR & the CPB will not go quietly. New Mexico Sen. Tom Udall, a Democrat, plans to fight for the public broadcasters' funding, telling The Hill newspaper he will "fight for this critical funding as the budget process continues," and adds, "federal support … can be 10 percent or more of their budget. These cuts would be disastrous for public broadcasting." The recent budget proposed by President Obama includes $451 million for public broadcasting