The Senate voted narrowly early Thursday morning to strip $1.1 billion in funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, in a severe blow to 1,500 local public TV and radio stations as well as PBS and NPR. Before the vote, Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Missouri, said that PBS and NPR had become "megaphones for partisan left-wing […]
SOURCE: Variety at 04:15AM on July 17, 2025