Today, the U.S. House voted 216-213 to pass the \u201cRescissions Act of 2025\u201d to claw back 9 billion dollars in bipartisan federal funding for a variety of grantees, including the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which funds both National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting Service. Public Knowledge argues that punishing NPR and PBS because the administration dislikes their coverage threatens a free press. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The following can be attributed to Morgan Wilsmann, Policy Analyst at Public Knowledge:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cToday’s House vote to rescind the $1.1 billion in already approved <\/em>funding to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is a misguided attempt to punish NPR and PBS for perceived ideological bias. While national NPR and PBS organizations can weather the funding cuts, the communities that will suffer most are precisely those this Congress claims to champion: small towns and rural areas that depend on public broadcasting for essential services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWhen CPB funding disappears, it’s not wealthy urban liberals who lose access to information \u2013 it’s families in small towns whose children will go without free educational programming, whose residents will miss critical emergency broadcasts, and whose local stories will go untold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAdding to the absurdity of this rescissions act passage, the funding for the CPB had already<\/em> been approved<\/em> in the Continuing Resolution this past March with bipartisan support<\/em>. By stripping this funding, Republicans have missed an opportunity to foster goodwill in future negotiations that will require support from their Democrat colleagues, but this is far from our only concern. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cLet\u2019s speak plainly. President Trump is sending a message to all media by cutting funds for the CPB: covering this administration has a cost, particularly if President Trump doesn\u2019t like what you have to say. This move simply serves to strike fear into the free press in a democracy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThis rescissions package exemplifies the politics of spite over substance, harming the very constituents it purports to serve.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today, the U.S. House voted 216-213 to pass the \u201cRescissions Act of 2025\u201d to claw back 9 billion dollars in bipartisan federal funding for a variety of grantees, including the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which funds both National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting Service. Public Knowledge argues that punishing NPR and PBS because the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[11,31,14],"class_list":["post-38157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release","tag-content-moderation","tag-free-expression","tag-platform-regulation"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n