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The Corporation for Public Broadcasting says it will shut down after Congress, following President Donald Trump's spending cuts, stripped $1.1 billion in previously approved funding.

President Trump has called public media a ‘monstrosity’ that deserves to be defunded, despite millions of US viewers.

Politicians' interest in controlling the content you see shifts from public media to social media.

PBS chief says cuts package ‘goes against the will of the American people’ as smaller outlets could face total closure

Hundreds of television and radio stations across the United States risk seeing their resources evaporate, after President Donald Trump prevailed Friday in scrapping federal funding for public broadcasting.

The US House approved Trump's plan to cut $9 billion (€7.7bn) in public broadcasting and foreign aid, now awaiting his signature. The bill passed 216-213.

The U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives approved by narrow margins on July 17 and 18, 2025, a law that claws back federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Once President Donald Trump signs it into law, the US$9 billion rescissions package will withdraw $1.1 billion Congress had…

The Department of Justice filed a rare action against three Corporation for Public Broadcasting board members.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has criticized the proposed $1.1 billion cut to public broadcasting, warning of a slide towards authoritarianism in the United States.