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.
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.
The House gave final approval to President Donald Trump’s request to claw back about $9 billion for public broadcasting and foreign aid.
Murkowski said on Wednesday that she still opposes the bill after voting on Tuesday against advancing it forward.
The three CPB board members were terminated in April, yet have continued to show up to work, claiming the president didn't have the authority to fire them.
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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.
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.