Corporation for Public Broadcasting

Bye Bye Bias: Corporation for Public Broadcasting Begins Shutdown

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) announced Friday it will begin an “orderly wind-down” of its operations after President Donald Trump signed an executive order halting funds to NPR and PBS, followed by Congress passing a rescissions bill and the Senate releasing a FY 2026 appropriations bill that excluded CPB funding for the first time since its founding.

President and CEO Paula Kerger speaks at the PBS's Executive Session at the 2017 Tele

Budget Bill Would Increase Funding for National Endowment for the Arts

The Congressional budget plan agreed upon this week by both Republican and Democratic legislators retains funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and increases the budgets of both the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities, agencies that President Donald Trump planned to eliminate in his own budget proposal this year.

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Five Reasons Trump Is Right to Cut NPR, PBS

President Donald Trump’s first budget proposal, “America First,” ends federal funding to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting — which, in turn, supports National Public Radio (NPR) and Public Broadcasting Service (PBS).

Oscar the Grouch and Anderson Cooper (Chris Pizzello / Invision / Associated Press)