The Corporation for Public Broadcasting announced Friday that it would close at the end of the fiscal year on Sept. 30, after President Donald Trump last month signed legislation canceling their funding for the next two years.
The move comes the day after the Senate Appropriations Committee approved a fiscal 2026 Labor-HHS-Education spending bill that did not include funding for public broadcasting, which the organization referenced in its press release announcing its closure.
“Despite the extraordinary efforts of millions of Americans who called, wrote, and petitioned Congress to preserve federal funding for CPB, we now face the difficult reality of closing our operations,” the organization’s president and CEO, Patricia Harrison, said in a statement.
