White House to ask Congress to cut $9B in funds, including for NPR, PBS, USAID

PBS and NPR are in a once-in-a-generation funding fight. They might well lose

America’s two biggest public broadcasters, PBS and NPR, are facing an up-or-down vote over their federal funding for the first time in decades.

Uncle Sam Just Conducted Its Final April 15th Pledge Drive for PBS and NPR - The American Spectator | USA News and Politics

Fans of such 1980s and 1970s midnight goodbyes can dispense with the saudade and look forward to not the past but the future, as all public television stations hopefully deliver such beautiful signoffs in unison for a permanent goodbye. This joyous farewell, of course, does not mean these stations permanently go off the air but instead permanently go off the dole. PBS and NPR...

About Time! White House Preparing Plan to Defund PBS and NPR

The Trump White House is reportedly preparing its plan to cancel all federal funding for National Public Radio (NPR) and the Public Broadcasting System (PBS). And it’s about time! The requests to stop federal funding for the two broadcasters are part of a “rescissions” plan, and White House officials are reaching out to congress to […] The post About Time! White House Preparing Plan to Defund PBS and NPR appeared first on The Lid.

The Trump Administration is moving forward in the funding of PBS and NPR, two media outlets that receive government funds and are widely recognized by its left-wing editorial line. The White House has stated that "for years, U.S. taxpayers have been responsible for subsidizing National Public Radio (NPR) and Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), which spread radical and progressive propaganda disguised as 'news'."Read more]]>

Trump wants to bulldoze Sesame Street

The White House is preparing to ask Congress to strip nearly all federal funding from public broadcasting companies—namely, NPR and PBS—according to multiple outlets, including The New York Times. The Trump administration is expected to request that...

Trump Admin Moves to Cancel $9.3 Billion of USAID, Public Media Funds

The White House has asked Congress to claw back $9.3 billion of previously approved funding to USAID, public broadcasting and other programs. That includes $1.1 billion in federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a taxpayer-supported nonprofit company that provides matching funds to broadcasters including NPR, PBS and community radio and TV stations. In a statement, the White House accused the broadcasters of spreading “radic…