(Daily Caller News Foundation) – The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) announced on Friday that it is winding down operations as a result of President Donald Trump’s major funding cuts.
The CPB attributed its closure to the $9 billion rescissions package that passed on July 24, which significantly slashes funding for public broadcasting, including PBS and NPR, which are expected to be largely impacted by CBP’s closure. The majority of staff positions will be eliminated by Sept. 30, and a small transition team will remain through January 2026, CPB announced in a press release.
“The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) announced today that it will begin an orderly wind-down of its operations following the passage of a federal rescissions package and the release of the Senate Appropriations Committee’s FY 2026 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies (Labor-H) appropriations bill, which excludes funding for CPB for the first time in more than five decades,” the organization stated.
CPB President and CEO Patricia Harrison said while the corporation cannot withstand the federal spending cuts, it will support their partners with “transparency and care,” according to the press release.
“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,” Harrison said. “CPB remains committed to fulfilling its fiduciary responsibilities and supporting our partners through this transition with transparency and care.”
“Public media has been one of the most trusted institutions in American life, providing educational opportunity, emergency alerts, civil discourse, and cultural connection to every corner of the country,” Harrison continued. “We are deeply grateful to our partners across the system for their resilience, leadership, and unwavering dedication to serving the American people.”
CPB was first authorized by Congress in 1967 and is seen as a “steward” for the federal funding in public broadcasting, the press release states.
PBS and NPR have notably had left-leaning political slants in their coverage and have even refused to correct previous false reporting. NPR falsely reported in November 2018 that Donald Trump Jr. lied to the Senate Judiciary Committee during his September 2017 testimony about plans for a Trump Tower in Moscow, which actually referred to an entirely different project.
NPR also downplayed the idea that COVID-19 originated in a lab in Wuhan, China, and stopped airing Trump’s coronavirus task force briefings in the Seattle, Washington, area in March 2020.
In 2020, PBS’ former White House correspondent Yamiche Alcindor characterized Trump’s speech at Mount Rushmore as a love letter to “white resentment” on MSNBC. In 2017, PBS put together an entire panel to educate its viewers on what it means to be “woke” and how to define “white privilege,” and further produced an entire movie called “Real Boy,” which promoted a teenager’s so-called “changing gender identity.”
