Breaking: Corporation for Public Broadcasting to Shut Down After Federal Budget Cuts

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting will shut down by September’s end, the private non-profit that is funded almost entirely by Congress announced on Friday.

CPB, which funded both PBS and NPR, was defunded by Senate Republicans with the passage of this year’s rescissions bill. Congressional appropriations previously allocated $1.1 billion to CPB.

“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,” CPB President and CEO Patricia Harrison said. “CPB remains committed to fulfilling its fiduciary responsibilities and supporting our partners through this transition with transparency and care.”

Created in 1967 by Lyndon B. Johnson’s law that established public broadcasting, the group will shut down at the end of the fiscal year, September 30, 2025. CPB will retain a transition team until January 2026 “to ensure a responsible and orderly closeout of operations,” it said in a statement.

Although President Donald Trump has supported clawing back public funds for media outlets, CPB, and the local and national public services it funds, has been under fire for decades for its growing partisan bias. Just two years after the CPB was created, Richard Nixon proposed to cut its budget, but ultimately failed.

Katherine Maher, the current CEO of NPR, has denied claims that the taxpayer-funded media outlet espouses left-of-center ideas, despite admitting that NPR has failed in recent years to cover the Hunter Biden laptop story. At the time, NPR’s then-managing editor Terence Samuels said that NPR did not want to “waste our time on stories that are not really stories, and we don’t want to waste the listeners’ and readers’ time on stories that are just pure distractions.”

Maher testified at a House Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency hearing in March, which was organized to investigate left-wing bias in publicly-funded media organizations.

“NPR and PBS have increasingly become radical, left-wing echo chambers for a narrow audience of mostly wealthy, white, urban liberals and progressives, who generally look down on and judge rural America,” Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, chair of the DOGE subcommittee, said at the time.

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