The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which has distributed federal funds to both PBS and NPR for decades, announced Friday that it's shutting down.
The news comes after President Donald Trump recently clawed back more than a billion dollars of funding for public broadcasting.
In a statement, CPB President Patricia Harrison said, "Despite the extraordinary efforts of millions of Americans who called, wrote and petitioned Congress, we now face the difficult reality of closing our operations."
PBS and its stations get around 15% of annual revenue from federal money.
@RepJeffries That’s so interesting since BIDEN STARTED ALL THIS AND YOU HAVE ENTHUSIASTICALLY SUPPORTED IT. I don’t need democrats who are functional republicans. I need an actual opposition party, one who will stand up to their own leaders when they are wrong!
If you ever wonder if your boss's policy decisions are driven by a desire to control people and reinforce hierarchies rather than to achieve operational efficiency, the answer is always yes.
Pediatricians do not profit off vaccines. In fact, most pediatricians either break even or even lose money when they offer vaccines. Misleading parents about doctors' motivations puts children's health at risk and sows distrust in lifesaving vaccinations.
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@PushDemsLeft She’s a huge part of why the Dems are even more terrible today!!! Sheesh. Spare us your BS. She didn’t show up for Garcia but she will if it’s low effort and in her own backyard. She can’t even articulate the problem well!
@ContraPoints Sure. Unfortunately she would have kept putting them in abandoned office buildings and warehouses operated by unqualified contractors who didn’t provide beds, bedding, hygiene, doctors, medical care, and mixed kids of all ages together without their moms.
@NOLAnews Hutson is a craven human being. Instead of placing the blame on herself, she blames the fact that she has female deputies. Why are you throwing your deputies under the bus, especially when you made a big deal out of being female? They are braver than you!
@RepRoKhanna Yeah yeah. How about voting on the horrors of I*E kidnappings, Florida concentration camps, foreign gulags where we detain people, etc? Get them to vote on that!!!!
@RepRoKhanna Bzzzt…nope. You’re just activating the oppositional defiance of right wingers, and pissing off the left with your BS grandstanding. Instead , I need you to put out legislation that prevents this admin from KIDNAPPING CITIZENS.
@pr3ciousroy@FixNOLA@otforus@IvWaste This is the OT way. When he was my city council representative, he would show up to meetings and just babble like this. Guess it’s sort of working for him.
@NOLAnews All of these quotes are a terrifying exercise of saying that the sky is not blue, it’s black; that water runs uphill, not downhill; and that disasters don’t need FEMA. These ideologues are happy to sacrifice us all to appease their false idol.
Amazing how successful neoliberalism was at convincing us that the private sector is the real economy and the public sector merely parasitic. The private sector is completely dependent on the state - to create the currency, infrastructure, legal framework etc that it relies on.
@jacksonvoss Everyone acts so surprised about Cassidy’s heel turn. But he’s ALWAYS been this guy. He’s always made pious speeches and then voted for whatever evil bill is in front of him. He’s always been the same grifter he is now.
Democrats can’t get a crosswalk installed when they have all three branches, but it took Republicans 6 months to gut the entire US government like it was a Red Lobster.