Corporation for Public Broadcasting to shut down following Trump budget cuts

[Zorro]

Source: USA Today

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting announced on Aug. 1 that it was starting an “orderly wind-down of its operations” weeks after Congress passed a measure that clawed back more than $1 billion in funds to the organization.

The corporation disperses federal funds to NPR and PBS. President Donald Trump called for the outlets’ federal funding to be pulled in May, saying “neither entity presents a fair, accurate or unbiased portrayal of current events to taxpaying citizens.”

Corporation for Public Broadcasting employees were told on Aug. 1 that most staff positions would be slashed as the fiscal year ends on Sept. 30. Some staff would remain through January 2026 to “ensure a responsible and orderly closeout of operations,” according to the corporation’s news release.

“Public media has been one of the most trusted institutions in American life, providing educational opportunity, emergency alerts, civil discourse, and cultural connection to every corner of the country,” Corporation for Public Broadcasting President and CEO Patricia Harrison said. “We are deeply grateful to our partners across the system for their resilience, leadership, and unwavering dedication to serving the American people.”

Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/08/01/corporation-for-public-broadcasting-shutting-down/85477601007/

[UpInArms]

1. The world feels more like

Mad Max every day

[DSandra]

32. That's pretty much where America is headed to

Prepare for the extremely bleak future that America is headed to.

[rampartd]

48. the dystopian future of the movie "brazil"

if not full "soylent green"

[Botany]

2. Burning America to the ground on behalf of Vlad Putin, Musk, Leonard Leo, and the tech boys/crypto shits.

PBS and NPR are gems for the American people and were paid in a large part by funds from
the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and now that will be gone.

[littlemissmartypants]

3. What a gut punch. Horrible.

[PortTack]

28. Yes...a terrible gut punch

[Nigrum Cattus]

4. All repugs know how to do is destroy

[KPN]

5. Fuck Trump! And all the Republicans! And all the people that voted for them! That's all.

[brakester]

6. What a MONUMENTAL

loss for America!

We live in a very rural area and have insanely unreliable Internet. One of our main forms of entertainment is watching PBS Passport films and shows. It has no rival for quality and affordability.

[llmart]

27. Me too.

They are actually my go-to for entertainment and informative shows. I can't begin to describe how absolutely FURIOUS this makes me!!!

He has a lot of nerve saying it's an "unecessary expense"??? Fuck him all to hell. You know what an unnecessary expense is? His fucking golfing and fake gold decorations and everything else.

Sorry for the language but this pisses me off royally.

[dweller]

7. Brought to you

By the letters F , D & T

😕



✌🏻

[elleng]

8. THE WORST!!!

[electric_blue68]

9. ?????!!!!!!!!!! %#%&&+#$&#)#(%!!!!!

Effing BASTARD!!!!!
😬😬😬😬😬

[GJGCA]

10. Press release link

https://cpb.org/pressroom/Corporation-Public-Broadcasting-Addresses-Operations-Following-Loss-Federal-Funding

[forgotmylogin]

11. Trump loves firing people.

And will have no dissent. Slavery didn't happen. He was never impeached. We have always been at war with Eurasia. He will be accepting petitions from rich plebs in his gilded ballroom if you kneel in front of him and ask him to twiddle your country's tariff knob.

[Hornedfrog2000]

12. It feels like everything we fought for in ww2

Is being GIVEN away by republicans.

[allegorical oracle]

13. We aren't allowed to have anything nice ever again, evidently. Only a warrior mentality. nt

[Kali]

14. my local community radio station gets part of its funding from the CPB

I presume others do as well.

[ffr]

15. Every day is more chaos, higher prices for everything, and a weaker nation, thanks to tRump voters

FUCK!

[Lonestarblue]

16. Once all the media but right-wing sites has been destroyed, any chance of reviving democracy will end.

Trump and Project 2025 leaders are using the power of government to dictate who universities can hire, who they can admit as students, and what they can teach about history, culture, economics, and every subject so that it reflects only Republican propaganda. We are well down the road to total fascism.

[Botany]

18. " We are well down the road to total fascism."

Yup! Rewrite history, spread lies as if they are truth, have your own army of Trumpers*
with a budget greater than all of Russia’s military, and have a series of prisons both in
America and around the world where “the enemies of Trump’s state” can be disappeared
too.”


* ICE

[OldBaldy1701E]

43. Yep.

And, we are still letting it happen.

I suppose that, once enough people are destitute and in danger of being deported, we might get our act together.

[Mblaze]

17. Neither entity

Accepts the mad ravings of Qanon cultists.

[Sanity Claws]

19. I am so sad

The world we have known is being dismantled and destroyed.

[LudwigPastorius]

20. Shithole status incoming for this country.

Why throw a few measly tax dollars toward quality, enlightened TV & radio programming when we can have 24 hour commercial reruns of "OWW My Balls!!"?

[Dave Bowman]

39. "Oww my balls!"

But the movie won an Oscar!

[Scott Alan Swaggerty]

49. Pretty much

[Scalded Nun]

21. The GOP will not be happy until they have stolen every last cent from the American people.

Look for them to aggressively criminalize poverty, being a minority, being handicapped, etc.

These people are terminally and hopelessly perverse...and so are their followers, every fucking one of them.

[cstanleytech]

22. Well, the Republicans are succeeding in fulling the Contract on America they took out. *SIGH*

[popsdenver]

29. Marching forward, step by step

The perfect title for a book about the past 45+ years would be: WHILE THE NATION SLEPT…….

Everyone walking down the jungle path, swatting at mosquitoes, completely oblivious to the herd of charging elephants.
(Pun Intended)

[cstanleytech]

34. Unfortunately a tiny bit of that's our own parties fault as far to much focus was on the Federal elected offices.

While not enough was given to the County and lower level State elections which allowed the gerrymandering the Republicans exploited to gain power.
Hopefully we can fix it but it's going to probably not happen until long after I'm dead assuming our country can survive long enough.

[gilligan]

23. WOW

What a crying shame for our country to go down this path.

[Johnny2X2X]

24. How long will NPR and PBS survive now?

12 months?

[OhioTim]

37. I Believe That

only 10% of their funding comes from the federal government. Not that Trump won't try other ways to attack them.

[LauraInLA]

25. Everyone who can, must donate to their local public tv and radio stations -- even $10 a month helps!

[IcyPeas]

26. A pox on every republican house and family

Shame!

[rubbersole]

30. Way too kind.

[NJCher]

31. What should be done

Is something like the BBC. A license fee on every television sold or some other similar type of arrangement.

When the Democrats regain power again, they can find a better way to fund public tv and radio.

[orangecrush]

33. When the wheel turns

If action isn't taken to shit down fux "news" then there is no justice left.

[mdbl]

35. Repuglicans - Keeping the Idiot in Idiocracy.

[Exp]

36. One word: FUCKERS !! nt

[Dave Bowman]

38. The world was a better place because of them. What a loss, what a damn shame...

[calimary]

40. Gee, thanks a heap, donald.

Nice “legacy” you’re building for your incredibly selfish, thoughtless, short-sighted, pissant self.

So how do we respond to this shit? NOBODY better be planning to ignore another election!!! There’s just WAY TOO MUCH at stake (at least what’s still in existence that the Orange One hasn’t broken or canceled yet.

[dlk]

41. Republicans have won the war against Big Bird

They should be so proud.

[pfitz59]

42. Trumps wants the entire country to be

as miserable as he is.

[GiqueCee]

44. "neither entity presents a fair, accurate or unbiased portrayal of current events to taxpaying citizens."

This from a pathological liar who couldn't tell the truth about the time of day. Although, I don't believe for a second that Trump composed that sentence; he too fucking stupid.
He has to be stopped, or America is history.

[The Grand Illuminist]

46. All peaceful measures were tried and failed.

We may not have any other choice but the unfortunate.

[GiqueCee]

45. "neither entity presents a fair, accurate or unbiased portrayal of current events to taxpaying citizens."

This from a pathological liar who couldn't tell the truth about the time of day. And I don't believe for a second that Trump composed that sentence; he's too fucking stupid.
He, and his kleptocracy, have got to be stopped, or America is history.

[Paladin]

47. He's just going to keep doing things like this, until we STOP him. (nt)

[Scott Alan Swaggerty]

50. Notice that not a single billionaire is coming to the rescue

Billionaires will never save us.