Corporation for Public Broadcasting to begin closing down after Congress claws back funding

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), which operates NPR and PBS, announced Friday that it would begin closing down its operations now that Congress has pulled over $1.1 billion in federal funding.

President Donald Trump signed the $9 billion rescissions package last month, which largely pulled funding for foreign aid programs such as the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), but it also pulled funding for CPB.

The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee also advanced an appropriations bill on Thursday that would zero out funding for the organization in general, Politico reported.

“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,” CPB President Patricia Harrison said in a statement.

Although the cancellation in funding is considered a positive move for the Trump administration, it could also prompt smaller public radio stations to close without assistance from the federal government.

The nonprofit said that the majority of its employees will lose their jobs at the end of the current fiscal year in September, but a handful of remaining employees will stay on through January.

Misty Severi is a news reporter for Just The News. You can follow her on X for more coverage.