The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the conduit for federal funds to NPR and PBS, announced on Friday that it is beginning to wind down its operations given President Trump has signed a law clawing back $1.1 billion in funding for public broadcasting through fiscal year 2027.
The announcement follows a largely party-line vote last month that approved the cuts to public broadcasting as part of a $9 billion rescissions package that also included cuts to foreign aid that was sent by the White House earlier this year. While public media officials had held a glimmer of hope that lawmakers would restore some of the money in the following year, the Senate Appropriations Committee declined to do that on Thursday.
Here in Kansas City, we were able to fill the $500,000 funding gap for our local station KCUR with donations. I imagine many rural areas will not be so lucky.
Not great though. Our taxes should be funding these stations.
Your taxes will be funding the billionaires. Lovely.
Hello neighbor! I was thinking the same thing with Kansas Public Radio and their Harvest Public Media segments.
Gonna suck for a lot of people that voted for this. Oh well.