Clawback of $1.1B for PBS and NPR puts rural stations at risk – and threatens a vital source of journalism. Really!

For how many decades have their been demands to defund PBS and NPR? Then came President Trump's second term!

By the way, the current US federal debt is over $36.6 trillion or more than 120% of GDP! It is long overdue and high time to cut federal spending!

If it is great journalism, why does the audience not pay for it instead of all taxpayers?

In the meantime we also have the Internet and social media to spread news and commentary and so on.

"The U.S. Senate narrowly approved on July 16, 2025, a bill that would claw back federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which distributes money to NPR, PBS and their affiliate stations. The US$9 billion rescission package will withdraw $1.1 billion Congress had previously approved for the CPB to receive in the 2026 and 2027 fiscal years. ...

Both NPR and PBS receive money from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, an independent nonprofit corporation Congress created in 1967 to receive and distribute federal money to public broadcasters. ..."

Clawback of $1.1B for PBS and NPR puts rural stations at risk – and threatens a vital source of journalism