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Clawback of $1.1B for PBS and NPR puts rural stations at risk, threatens vital source of journalism
The U.S. Senate narrowly approved on July 16, 2025, a bill that would claw back federal funding for the Corporation for ...
Cuts to public media will smash budgets of some local radio stations
Congress voted to claw back federal funding to public media. Some of those hit hardest include community radio stations in areas that voted for the president.
Republicans voted to defund NPR and PBS. Here’s how WHYY and other Pa. stations will be impacted.
With Republicans cutting off federal funding for NPR and PBS, one public media executive in Pennsylvania predicts local ...
Trump’s $9B clawback against PBS and NPR may have bought him a post-summer government shutdown
Steve Bannon joined a growing chorus of MAGA influencers coalescing behind President Donald Trump in the wake of the Wall ...
Congress rolls back $9 billion in public media funding and foreign aid
The House approved a Trump administration plan to rescind $9 billion in previously allocated funds, including $1.1 billion ...
NPR and PBS enter uncharted territory after historic defunding by Congress
With a late-night vote in Congress to cut PBS and NPR funding, Mitt Romney‘s vision has come to pass. During a 2012 presidential debate, the GOP nominee famously pledged to “stop the subsidy to PBS” ...
House passes spending package cutting foreign aid and funds for NPR and PBS
NBC News' Julie Tsirkin reports on the House of Representatives passing a bill cutting $9 billion in spending that had ...
Senate moves to debate cuts to public broadcasting and foreign aid
The Trump administration has asked Congress to rescind funds for NPR/PBS and foreign aid. Congress has until the end of the ...