A bill that would claw back $1.1 billion in federal funding for public broadcasting cleared the House Rules Committee, setting it up for a floor vote later this week.
The Trump administration sent a rescissions package to Congress last week that rescinded funding to foreign aid programs, along with public broadcasting. If the bill passes, it will zero out $535 million in fudning to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting over the next two fiscal years, even though it was already allocated. The CPB is the non profit corporation set up by Congress to distribute federal funding to public media stations, PBS, NPR and other entities.
It’s still unclear whether Republicans have the votes for the rescissions package to pass.
Seems like it would be more effective to just tell your local stations to stop carrying NPR programming if that’s how you feel. If this goes through NPR will be fine and just keep on reporting the same as they have been because they’ve got tons of big foundations and corporations that donate to them directly and they’ve got a bunch of the most popular podcasts in the country they’re running advertisements on besides. It’s the little regional TV and radio stations that carry NPR shows alongside local reporting are going to have a lot harder time making their budgets.
That’s exactly it. NPR will go on, but local, small market, broadcasters who receive as much as half of their funding from this, will be severely affected. Rural America will be the biggest loser here.
I’ve seen donations go to the stations themselves, not just NPR generally. Is that not correct?
If you’re donating to a local station, the donation goes directly to the station itself, who may or may not use some of that donation to purchase NPR programming. Some people may choose to give to NPR directly instead, but that’s usually big organizations like the MacArthur foundation or other big charitable trust funds.
Koch Family Foundation
Sorry, I haven’t a clue.
Thanks for your reply anyway!