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Corporation for Public Broadcasting to close its doors after loss of funding<\/div>\r\n
Monday, August 4, 2025<\/div>\r\n
By Shauneen Miranda, Colorado Newsline<\/a> <\/div>\r\n

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WASHINGTON — The Corporation for Public Broadcasting\u00a0announced<\/a> Friday that it will be shutting down.<\/p>

The announcement came just one day after a major\u00a0Senate appropriations bill<\/a> omitted funding for the nonprofit that funds public media and a week after President Donald Trump\u00a0signed a bill into law<\/a> that yanked $1.1 billion in previously approved spending for CPB.\u00a0<\/p>

CPB, which Congress authorized in 1967, provides funds for National Public Radio, the Public Broadcasting Service and hundreds of local stations across the United States. President Donald Trump and fellow Republicans have criticized NPR and PBS of left-leaning bias, an accusation the public media organizations have rejected.<\/p>

\u201cDespite the extraordinary efforts of millions of Americans who called, wrote, and petitioned Congress to preserve federal funding for CPB, we now face the difficult reality of closing our operations,\u201d Patricia Harrison, president and CEO of CPB, said in a statement Friday.<\/p>

\u201cCPB remains committed to fulfilling its fiduciary responsibilities and supporting our partners through this transition with transparency and care,\u201d Harrison said.<\/p>

She added that \u201cpublic 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.\u201d<\/p>

CPB said employees were notified Friday that the majority of staff positions \u201cwill conclude with the close of the fiscal year on September 30, 2025,\u201d and a small transition team will stay through January 2026.<\/p>

The Senate Appropriations Committee on Thursday approved the Labor, Health and Human Services and Education spending bill for fiscal year 2026, which did not include any CPB funding.<\/p>

Sen. Patty Murray of Washington state, the top Democrat on the panel, expressed her disappointment over the lack of a CPB allocation in the bill during a committee markup.\u00a0<\/p>

\u201cIt is a shameful reality and now communities across the country will suffer the consequences as over 1,500 stations lose critical funding,\u201d Murray said.<\/p>

In a win for the Trump administration,\u00a0Congress passed a rescissions package<\/a> in July that clawed back $9 billion in previously approved spending for public broadcasting and foreign aid, including $1.1 billion for CPB.<\/p>

Trump signed the measure into law just days later.\u00a0<\/p>