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

PBS chief warns cutting federal money will 'devastate' local stations as White House seeks to pull funding

PBS CEO Paula Kerger issued an impassioned statement responding to the White House's plans to ask Congress to pull federal funding from public broadcasting.

Does Trump Even Need Congress?

Team Trump has preferred executive-branch power grabs to legislation, but will soon propose rescissions whereby Congress can rubber-stamp DOGE cuts and make others. It will be a test of congressional GOP subservience.

NPR, PBS cuts to go before Congress

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration will ask lawmakers to cut more than $9 billion in funding for the Public Broadcasting Service, National Public Radio and foreign aid in the current fiscal year, an attempt to employ a little-used legislative tactic for reducing spending already approved by Congress. The proposal — known as a rescission package — would codify cuts identified by President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency. Tha…

White House calls NPR and PBS a “grift,” will ask Congress to rescind funding

Markey: Cutting NPR and PBS “is not budget discipline, it’s cultural sabotage.”…

Trump plans order to cut funding for NPR and PBS

President Trump and GOP members of Congress have accused the public broadcasters of biased and "woke" programming. The president plans a rescission, which would give Congress 45 days to approve the directive or allow funding to be restored.

Trump planning to cut federal funding for NPR, PBS

A White House source confirmed to National Public Radio (NPR) that the Trump administration will send a plan to Congress proposing a federal funding cut to public media, including the 54-year-old outlet and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). The memo will reportedly be presented to legislators on April 28. The Republican-controlled House of Representatives and the Senate will have 45 days to approve the nearly total monetary severance or res…