Posted on Monday, August 4, 2025
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by Alan Jamison
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The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) announced Friday that the taxpayer-funded organization will be shutting down by January 2026. This is after President Donald Trump signed a rescissions package into law, eliminating federal funding last month from CPB, which provides funding to PBS and NPR.
In a statement, CPB blamed the closure on the “federal rescissions package,” noting that the “release of the Senate Appropriations Committee’s FY 2026 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies (Labor-H) appropriations bill excludes funding for CPB for the first time in more than five decades.” CPB will eliminate most staff positions by September 30, with a small transition team remaining until January 2026 that will work on closing operations.
Trump promised to eliminate federal funding from left-wing media corporations on the campaign trail last year. He specifically called out NPR for consistently negative coverage of Republicans.
“NO MORE FUNDING FOR NPR, A TOTAL SCAM! EDITOR SAID THEY HAVE NO REPUBLICANS, AND IS ONLY USED TO ‘DAMAGE TRUMP,’” the President said in a post on Truth Social last April. “THEY ARE A LIBERAL DISINFORMATION MACHINE. NOT ONE DOLLAR!!!”
Republican members of Congress celebrated the news. Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana explained that this is good news for Americans who no longer want their tax dollars to fund left-wing journalism.
“The Corporation for Public Broadcasting—the scheme bureaucrats used to funnel taxpayer money to NPR and PBS—will soon be no more,” Kennedy wrote in a post on X. “That’s great news for every American who doesn’t want their tax dollars funding left-wing opinion journalism EVER again.”
Ronny Jackson, who served as a White House physician during Trump’s first term and now serves as a member of the House from Texas, said that CPB’s closure is another example of Trump and Americans “winning.”
“The Corporation for Public Broadcasting is DEAD!” Jackson wrote on X. “They couldn’t survive without YOUR taxpayer money. Another useless, left-wing project is OVER. This is what happens when we put AMERICA FIRST. Not tired of WINNING!”
The federal government originally created CPB in 1967 when President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Public Broadcasting Act into law in an effort to support taxpayer-funded entertainment and news as an alternative to content produced by private corporations. In recent years, networks that received federal funding through CPB notably aired controversial and politically biased programming.
Flagship PBS program Sesame Street, for instance has promoted LGBTQ ideology over the past few years. In 2020, the children’s show featured male actor Billy Porter wearing a dress. Sesame Street’s official X account then shared a post two months ago celebrating “Pride Month.”
As AMAC Newsline previously reported, NPR also has a history of biased reporting and news coverage. In the past few years, NPR published stories that stated the Declaration of Independence was a document with “flaws and deeply ingrained hypocrisies” and that promoted “queer animals” with the idea that “some deer are nonbinary.”
With CPB officially shutting down within the next few months, PBS and NPR must now rely on private revenue sources to remain operational.
Alan Jamison is the pen name of a political writer with extensive experience writing for several notable politicians and news outlets.
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