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PBS chief warns cutting federal money will 'devastate' local stations as White House seeks to pull funding
PBS chief Paula Kerger offered an impassioned response to the White House moving forward with its plans to cut federal ...
White House urges Congress to cut federal funding for NPR, PBS
The Trump administration is taking steps to end federal funding for NPR and PBS through the Office of of Management and ...
Trump planning to cut federal funding for NPR, PBS
A White House source confirmed to NPR that the Trump administration will send a plan to Congress proposing to end federal ...
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Who Are Katherine Maher and Paula Kerger, the C.E.O.s of PBS and NPR?
Ms. Maher, 41, has spent much of her career leading ... Paula Kerger, 67, is the longest-serving chief executive in PBS’s history. She joined the network in 2006 from Thirteen, a PBS member ...
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Trump White House to Ask Congress to Defund NPR, PBS, And USAID — Claw Back $9 Billion in Funds
Defenders of both USAID and Voice of America have decried killing key levers of global soft power that enhance U.S. national ...
PBS president: Trump’s proposed funding cut would ‘devastate’ network
The president of PBS on Tuesday warned that the cuts President Trump proposed to the public broadcaster’s budget would have a ...
White House rescissions package cuts $1.1 billion from PBS, $8.3 billion from USAID
Conservatives have long targeted public broadcasting for spending cuts, and foreign aid historically enjoys low support in ...
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NPR and PBS Are Begging for Mercy. They Don’t Deserve It
NPR and PBS used to justify their unjustifiable taxpayer funding by telling people that poor children would be harmed if ...
White House to ask Congress to cut $9B in funds, including for NPR, PBS, USAID
The White House is preparing a rescission package that will seek to have Congress claw back more than $9 billion in approved ...
In Light of Congressional Testimony, Congress Should Defund NPR and PBS
NPR CEO Katherine Maher and PBS CEO Paula Krueger testified in front of Congress about allegedly biased journalism in each of ...
Save NPR and PBS — but without the government money
The best strategy for public broadcasting would be to take their own decisive steps to ditch federal funding and move on.
Trump administration will ask Congress to cut funding for NPR and PBS
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting cuts are part of a larger $9.3 billion package that includes further proposed cuts to ...