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Article in Democracy Now by Staff 6/13/25
Headline: “House Approves Trump Request to Rescind $9.4B for Foreign Aid and Public Media”
“The U.S. House on Thursday approved in a 214-212 vote President Trump’s request to claw back $9.4 billion in funding for international aid and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which funds NPR and PBS. Only four Republicans voted against the measure, which will freeze $8.3 billion in appropriated foreign aid and $1.1 billion for public media, pending another vote in the Senate.”
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Article in the New York Times by Megan Mineiro & Catie Edmondson, 6/13/25
Headline: “Trump’s $1.1 Billion Public Broadcasting Clawback Faces Pushback in the Senate”
Subhead: “Some Republican senators are voicing concern over the House-passed bill that would rescind $9 billion that Congress already approved, including money for NPR and PBS stations in their states.”
“Dakota Talk Radio in the tiny town of Lake Andes, S.D., is one of dozens of rural radio stations across the United States that could see more than half of its budget vanish.
“The station in Unalakleet, Alaska, a remote village in the western Arctic, could lose more than 90 percent of its funding.
“President Trump’s plan to claw back $9 billion in spending already approved by Congress, which Republicans pushed through the House this week and is pending in the Senate, would slash $1.1 billion for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. . .”
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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/us/politics/trump-public-broadcasting-senate.html