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Clawback of $1.1b for PBS and NPR Puts Rural Stations at Risk – And Threatens a Vital Source Of Journalism

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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 — ...

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 ...

Trump Celebrates Congress Pulling $1.1 Billion in Funding From ‘Atrocious’ NPR and PBS: ‘This Is Big!’

Trump took a victory lap after Congress formally passed his measure to claw back previously approved funding, including $1.1 ...

Prominent liberals and media figures declare cuts to PBS, NPR a ‘perilous moment’

House Republicans passed Trump's $9 billion rescissions package cutting $1 billion from public broadcasting, prompting ...

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 ...

PBS, NPR face ‘tremendous changes’ and will be ‘forced to make hard decisions’ as funding cut looms

Roughly $1.1 billion of the targeted cut would defund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the non-profit that supports ...

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 ...

NPR news chief announces she's leaving days after Congress kills federal funding

NPR newsroom chief Edith Chapin says she's leaving the network. She made the announcement just days after Congress voted to strip public broadcasting of all federal funding.

PBS and NPR are generally unbiased, independent of government propaganda and provide key benefits to US democracy

Studies link public broadcasting to higher voter turnout, better factual knowledge and lower susceptibility to extremist ...