Public broadcasting cuts will hit North Country stations
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WSRE-PBS is evaluating "where to eliminate programming" and WUWF is assessing how to proceed after the funding cut.
The House gave final approval to President Donald Trump’s request to claw back about $9 billion for public broadcasting and foreign aid.
The US House of Representatives has passed a bill allowing Congress to claw back billions in pre-approved funding for public broadcasting and foreign aid.
In 2018, during his first term, Trump sent a $15.3 billion rescission package to Congress that passed the House but failed in the Senate. This time, however, the Senate agreed to Trump’s cuts 51-48, with Murkowski and Sen. Susan Collins of Maine being the only Republicans to join Democrats in opposing the bill.
Republican majorities in both houses of Congress have now approved President Donald Trump’s clawback of about $9 billion for public broadcasting and foreign aid that lawmakers had appropriated.
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The rescissions package the Senate approved early Thursday pulls more than $1 billion from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) that provides federal funding for NPR and PBS.
The US Senate voted to rescind two years' worth of funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), delivering a blow to public radio and television stations around the country. The CPB is a publicly funded nonprofit corporation that supports NPR and PBS stations.
This story has been updated with additional context and to reflect that New England Public Media also receives funds from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting through GBH, and so it received a total of $857,