NY Times - Congress is expected to vote by the deadline on Friday on a White House proposal, known as a rescission package. It would pull back more than $500 million per year in federal funding that is set to go to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the government-backed company that supports public radio and TV stations across the country. Last week, President Trump urged legislators to support the cuts, and threatened to withhold his support for any Republican lawmakers who oppose the proposal.
If the package passes, the federal funding for public media will dry up beginning in October. NPR and PBS would survive — they get a small percentage of their funding from the federal government. But the cuts would force many local stations to sharply reduce their programming and operations. Many public broadcasters receive more than 50 percent of their budgets from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
The cuts could even be a death sentence for some stations, which have survived several attempts to choke off funding over the decades.
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Lest we,forget, it’s easy to point the finger of condemnation at Donald Trump, but he couldn’t wreak havoc on our country without the support of the Republican Party and their rank and file supporters.
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