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Senate Votes To Advance Trump’s Effort To Rescind Funding For PBS, NPR And Public Media
The bill would claw back $1.1 billion to PBS, NPR and public media
Russell Vought, director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), speaks with reporters at the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday.Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images The Senate voted on Tuesday evening to advance a package that would roll back $1.1 billion in funding to PBS, NPR and public media that had already been allocated over the next two years. But another lawmaker who was on the fence, Sen. Mike Rounds (R-SD), said that he supported the package after the Trump administration said that it would find money to “continue grants to tribal radio stations without interruption.” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said in a floor speech, “Tens of millions of Americans rely on public broadcast for weather alerts, local news, keeping track of City Hall, educational programming, and so much more.
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