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The Public Broadcasting Service will survive — in some form — no matter how the Senate votes this week on a bill aimed at ...
Paula Kerger, PBS president, warns that a $500 million funding cut could severely impact rural stations, eliminating up to 50% of their resources and jeopardizing educational programming.
The $9.4 billion rescissions package — already passed by the House — proposes cutting $1.1 billion allocated to NPR and PBS.
As a vote to cut more than $500 million per year in federal funding nears, stations are making their pitches to lawmakers, ...
Loss of the federal dollars could also delay infrastructure projects like Detroit PBS’s planned $30 million headquarters and studio in Detroit and put rural stations such as WNMU in Marquette — the ...
Congress had already allocated $535 million for public broadcasters this fiscal year, per TheWrap. PBS is specifically ...
President Trump warned Republican senators who do not support his plan to defund PBS and NPR that they will lose his ...
The House passed the rescissions package last month, 214-212, with four Republicans joining all Democrats against. In the ...
Senator Bernie Sanders criticizes proposed $1.1 billion cut to public broadcasting, citing concerns about authoritarianism in ...
In an interview that aired on Sunday’s (July 6) edition of CBS News’ Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan, Burns told CBS Evening News co-anchor John Dickerson that the funding cuts seem “fooldhardy” ...
WASHINGTON (TNND) — President Donald Trump is ramping up pressure on Senate Republicans to support a sweeping spending rollback that includes a controversial effort to strip federal funding from ...