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Conservatives Get the PBS and NPR Cuts They’ve Wanted for Decades
Nixon was so “disturbed” that PBS had started a new national news show with the hosts Robert MacNeil and Sander Vanocur — ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Impact of Defunding NPR and PBS
Congress just voted to claw back $500 million in funding for public broadcasting. Benjamin Mullin, a media reporter for The ...
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” ...
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 ...
Trump’s $9B clawback against PBS and NPR may have bought him a post-summer government shutdown
In the end, only two Republicans in the House voted against the legislation. But by winning on rescission, Trump might have ...