Corporation for Public Broadcasting to shut down following Trump budget cuts
Source: USA Today
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting announced on Aug. 1 that it was starting an orderly wind-down of its operations weeks after Congress passed a measure that clawed back more than $1 billion in funds to the organization.
The corporation disperses federal funds to NPR and PBS. President Donald Trump called for the outlets federal funding to be pulled in May, saying neither entity presents a fair, accurate or unbiased portrayal of current events to taxpaying citizens.
Corporation for Public Broadcasting employees were told on Aug. 1 that most staff positions would be slashed as the fiscal year ends on Sept. 30. Some staff would remain through January 2026 to ensure a responsible and orderly closeout of operations, according to the corporations news release.
Public media has been one of the most trusted institutions in American life, providing educational opportunity, emergency alerts, civil discourse, and cultural connection to every corner of the country, Corporation for Public Broadcasting President and CEO Patricia Harrison said. We are deeply grateful to our partners across the system for their resilience, leadership, and unwavering dedication to serving the American people.
Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/08/01/corporation-for-public-broadcasting-shutting-down/85477601007/

UpInArms
(53,403 posts)Mad Max every day
DSandra
(1,680 posts)Prepare for the extremely bleak future that America is headed to.
rampartd
(2,437 posts)if not full "soylent green"
Botany
(75,307 posts)PBS and NPR are gems for the American people and were paid in a large part by funds from
the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and now that will be gone.
littlemissmartypants
(29,759 posts)PortTack
(35,727 posts)Nigrum Cattus
(1,004 posts)KPN
(16,920 posts)brakester
(450 posts)loss for America!
We live in a very rural area and have insanely unreliable Internet. One of our main forms of entertainment is watching PBS Passport films and shows. It has no rival for quality and affordability.
They are actually my go-to for entertainment and informative shows. I can't begin to describe how absolutely FURIOUS this makes me!!!
He has a lot of nerve saying it's an "unecessary expense"??? Fuck him all to hell. You know what an unnecessary expense is? His fucking golfing and fake gold decorations and everything else.
Sorry for the language but this pisses me off royally.
dweller
(27,111 posts)By the letters F , D & T
😕
✌🏻
elleng
(140,759 posts)electric_blue68
(23,874 posts)😬😬😬😬😬
GJGCA
(120 posts)forgotmylogin
(7,924 posts)And will have no dissent. Slavery didn't happen. He was never impeached. We have always been at war with Eurasia. He will be accepting petitions from rich plebs in his gilded ballroom if you kneel in front of him and ask him to twiddle your country's tariff knob.
Hornedfrog2000
(866 posts)Is being GIVEN away by republicans.
allegorical oracle
(5,709 posts)Kali
(56,452 posts)I presume others do as well.
ffr
(23,242 posts)FUCK!
Lonestarblue
(12,923 posts)Trump and Project 2025 leaders are using the power of government to dictate who universities can hire, who they can admit as students, and what they can teach about history, culture, economics, and every subject so that it reflects only Republican propaganda. We are well down the road to total fascism.
Botany
(75,307 posts)Yup! Rewrite history, spread lies as if they are truth, have your own army of Trumpers*
with a budget greater than all of Russias military, and have a series of prisons both in
America and around the world where the enemies of Trumps state can be disappeared
too.
* ICE
And, we are still letting it happen.
I suppose that, once enough people are destitute and in danger of being deported, we might get our act together.
Mblaze
(749 posts)Accepts the mad ravings of Qanon cultists.
Sanity Claws
(22,253 posts)The world we have known is being dismantled and destroyed.
LudwigPastorius
(13,399 posts)Why throw a few measly tax dollars toward quality, enlightened TV & radio programming when we can have 24 hour commercial reruns of "OWW My Balls!!"?
Dave Bowman
(5,830 posts)But the movie won an Oscar!
Scott Alan Swaggerty
(105 posts)Scalded Nun
(1,496 posts)Look for them to aggressively criminalize poverty, being a minority, being handicapped, etc.
These people are terminally and hopelessly perverse...and so are their followers, every fucking one of them.
cstanleytech
(27,941 posts)popsdenver
(481 posts)The perfect title for a book about the past 45+ years would be: WHILE THE NATION SLEPT
.
Everyone walking down the jungle path, swatting at mosquitoes, completely oblivious to the herd of charging elephants.
(Pun Intended)
cstanleytech
(27,941 posts)While not enough was given to the County and lower level State elections which allowed the gerrymandering the Republicans exploited to gain power.
Hopefully we can fix it but it's going to probably not happen until long after I'm dead assuming our country can survive long enough.
What a crying shame for our country to go down this path.
Johnny2X2X
(23,405 posts)12 months?
OhioTim
(361 posts)only 10% of their funding comes from the federal government. Not that Trump won't try other ways to attack them.
LauraInLA
(2,248 posts)IcyPeas
(24,224 posts)Shame!
rubbersole
(10,535 posts)NJCher
(41,412 posts)Is something like the BBC. A license fee on every television sold or some other similar type of arrangement.
When the Democrats regain power again, they can find a better way to fund public tv and radio.
orangecrush
(26,713 posts)If action isn't taken to shit down fux "news" then there is no justice left.
mdbl
(7,362 posts)Exp
(574 posts)Dave Bowman
(5,830 posts)calimary
(87,834 posts)Nice legacy youre building for your incredibly selfish, thoughtless, short-sighted, pissant self.
So how do we respond to this shit? NOBODY better be planning to ignore another election!!! Theres just WAY TOO MUCH at stake (at least whats still in existence that the Orange One hasnt broken or canceled yet.
dlk
(12,936 posts)They should be so proud.
pfitz59
(11,855 posts)as miserable as he is.
GiqueCee
(2,823 posts)This from a pathological liar who couldn't tell the truth about the time of day. Although, I don't believe for a second that Trump composed that sentence; he too fucking stupid.
He has to be stopped, or America is history.
The Grand Illuminist
(1,898 posts)We may not have any other choice but the unfortunate.
GiqueCee
(2,823 posts)This from a pathological liar who couldn't tell the truth about the time of day. And I don't believe for a second that Trump composed that sentence; he's too fucking stupid.
He, and his kleptocracy, have got to be stopped, or America is history.
Paladin
(31,604 posts)Scott Alan Swaggerty
(105 posts)Billionaires will never save us.