Senate Votes to Strip $1.1 Billion From Public Broadcasting in Blow to PBS and NPR
Published: 2025-07-17 04:34
The Senate voted narrowly early Thursday morning to strip $1.1 billion in funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, in a severe blow to 1,500 local public TV and radio stations as well as PBS and NPR. Before the vote, Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Missouri, said that PBS and NPR had become “megaphones for partisan left-wing […]
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