Article in Indian Country Today by South Dakota Searchlight, 9/12/25
Headline: “high cost for public media and rural America”
Subhead: “Republican Mike Rounds’ vote was critical in cancellation of Corporation for Public Broadcasting funds”
“. . .as with many interactions with Trump, it was more transactional than genuinely moral or fairly reciprocal. A deal, in other words. But a very bad deal for rural Americans, it turns out.
“For the president’s end of the deal, he wanted Rounds to vote “yes” in the Senate on a bill to cut $9 billion in previously congressionally approved funding that included $1.1 billion for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. . . ”
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