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Roughly $1.1 billion of the targeted cut would defund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the non-profit that supports NPR and PBS.
During the early hours of Friday, the U.S. House of Representatives definitively approved President Donald Trump’s request to cut $9 billion from both PBS, which airs the popular show Sesame Street and other programs,
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” even though he liked Sesame Street character Big Bird.
Nixon was so “disturbed” that PBS had started a new national news show with the hosts Robert MacNeil and Sander Vanocur — someone on his enemies list — that he requested “all funds for public broadcasting be cut immediately,” White House memos released years later showed.
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Public TV stations will be “forced to make hard decisions in the weeks and months ahead,” PBS CEO Paula Kerger said Thursday, after the Senate approved a bill canceling all the federal funding for the network.
House Republicans passed Trump's $9 billion rescissions package cutting $1 billion from public broadcasting, prompting reactions from public outlet journalists and Democrats.
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"This Is Not Normal": Warren Says Trump’s Shut Down of Sesame Street, NPR is Just the BeginningElizabeth Warren warns that Donald Trump is targeting vital public media funds, including for Sesame Street, NPR, and local stations. If successful, she says this could set a dangerous precedent for cutting funding across critical community services like education,
Sen. Elizabeth Warren slammed a Republican-backed plan to slash funding for public broadcasting, warning it's part of Donald Trump's broader agenda to gut essential public services like education, housing,
Early in the morning on July 18, the House voted 216–213 to pass a bill that will rescind federal funding to NPR and PBS, a move that the organizations said will negatively impact listeners who rely on them for emergency alerts during natural disasters,
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Straight Arrow News on MSNAs ‘Sesame Street' faces potential cuts, hackers deface Elmo's X accountOne of Elmo's official social media accounts was hacked Sunday, leading to a series of racist and antisemitic posts before the issue was fixed. The beloved red puppet, known for its witty and educational role on "Sesame Street" across generations,