“Defunded but not defeated!”
It’s a statement that pops up now across the screen above a donation button when you go online and click on the PBS, or the Public Broadcasting Service, website.
The statement is also part of the reality that public broadcasting is facing after a bill signed by President Donald Trump in July canceled nearly $1.1 billion in previously approved federal funding for public media through the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB).
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