On February 18, 2025 in Arlington, Virginia, you will find a sign of the public broadcasting service. (Photo by Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images)
Washington – The company for public broadcasting announced Friday that it will be shut down.
The announcement came just one day after a major Draft law on the Senate Financed financing for the non -profit organization, the public media and a week after President Donald Trump signed a legislative template in the law The previously approved expenditure of 1.1 billion US dollars for CPB.
CPB, which approved the Congress approved in 1967, offers funds for the national public radio, the public broadcasting service and hundreds of local stations in the USA. President Donald Trump and the Republicans have criticized NPR and PBS of the left -wing bias, an allegations that the public media organizations rejected.
“Despite the extraordinary efforts of millions of Americans who called the Congress, to receive federal financing for CPB, we are now the difficult reality of closing our operations,” said Patricia Harrison, President and CEO of CPB, in a statement on Friday.
“CPB is still obliged to fulfill its responsibility for trust and to support our partners with this transition with transparency and care,” said Harrison.
She added that “public media were one of the most trustworthy institutions in American life and offer educational opportunities, emergency warnings, civil discourse and cultural connection to every corner of the country”.
According to CPB, the employees were announced on Friday that the majority of employee positions “will be completed with the end of the financial year on September 30, 2025”, and a compact transition team will remain until January 2026.
The Senate Committee on Thursday approved the law on work, health and human services and educational expenses for the 2026 financial year, which did not contain CPB financing.
Senator Patty Murray from Washington State, the Supreme Democrat in the committee, expressed her disappointment with the lack of a CPB assignment to the legal board during a committee.
“It is a shameful reality and now communities across the country will suffer the consequences because over 1,500 stations lose critical funds,” said Murray.
In a win for the Trump administration, The congress passed an explanatory package In July, which has withdrawn previously approved of $ 9 billion for public broadcasting and foreign aid, including $ 1.1 billion for CPB.
Trump signed the measure to the law just a few days later.
