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The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) is closing its operations due to the rescission of $1.1 billion in federal funding by the GOP. This decision follows President Trump’s calls to cut CPB funding, citing bias in PBS and NPR programming. Despite efforts by millions of Americans to preserve funding, Senate Republicans advanced a bill that eliminated public media funding.
The CPB stated its commitment to supporting its partners through this transition. The majority of CPB funding (about 70%) goes to local stations, not national outlets. Advocates highlight public trust in public media and its role in providing educational opportunities, emergency alerts, and civil discourse.
The CPB, created in 1967 to shield public media from political interference and provide budget certainty, is now facing a situation where local stations, especially those in rural areas, are at risk of closure due to the loss of federal funds. This is not the frist time CPB funding has been challenged, but previous attempts to zero out its budget where blocked by bipartisan lawmakers.This time, the funding rescission was part of a larger package of $9 billion in rescissions. President Trump threatened to withdraw support for any lawmaker who voted against it, leading to a vote where even some past supporters of public media voted to end the funding. The departure of some CPB board members, including those sought to be removed by Trump, also occurred prior to this announcement.
