The CEO of PBS, Paula Kerger, sounds the alarm on the negative impact it would have if the Congress withdraw the federal funds from the public transmission as the White House advances with plans to reduce the money of the taxpayers of PBS and NPR.
“The effort in progress to ensure that Congress terminates the financing of public media would alter the essential service that PBS and local member stations provide to the US people,” Kerger wrote in a statement shared on Tuesday shared with Fox News Digital.
“There is nothing more American than PBS, and our work is only possible due to the bipartisan support that we have always recovered from Congress. This public-private association allows us to help prepare millions of children and alddins and als e-laborvren and Alhildren and Als Alhildren and Alhildren Alhildren Andsverdren and Alsados and also also Hildsenhshilds and also. “To terminate these funds would devastate the member stations of PBS and the essential role they play in the communities, particularly rural and smaller and rural stations that depend on federal funds for a larger part of their budgets. Without PBS member stations, Americans will lose local local and emergency services in times of crisis. “
The White House urges Congress to reduce federal funds for NPR, PBS
PBS executive director, Paula Kerger, warned that federal funds “devastate” local stations throughout the country. (Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images)
Kerger Added, “We are proud to highlight real issues, individuals, and plates that wouldderwise be ignored by Commercial average. We look forward to demonstrating ort value to congress, so we have over the last 50 Years, to the amany, and and and and of service, and and and and and the and the Amer, and Service, and the American, and: and the American -or -Backy, and Time.
Kerger’s statement is in response to President Donald Trumpg’s budget director Russ Vought, writing a memorandum asking the legislators of the Republican party to reduce $ 1.1 billion that were assigned to the Corporation for the Public Broadcasting (CPB), as well as $ 8.3 billion of experience.
“From the first day, the Trump administration has directed the waste, fraud and abuse in federal spending through executive action, the revision of duxes and other efforts by the departments and agencies. COVES has expressed strong strong interests, Yyyyyyyyyyy the rapid approval,” Vrought wrote in the Memo.
The memorandum continued: “OB recommends that the Administration respond with two proposals to reduce $ 9.3 billion. The first includes a termination of $ 8.3 billion in expenditure expenditures wasteful ($ 22 billion) that does not expire in the fiscal year (FY) 2025. The second is a separate termination of all federal funds for the corporation for the public transmission (CPB), that the funds of political funds are a system Federal termination.
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Trump has said He would love to see NPR and annulled PBs.
“They spend more money than any other network of their kind ever, so the son of the money that is being wasted, and it is a very partial vision, you know better than anyone. And he honors to see him finish,” Trump said.
Russell Vought, director of the Office of Management and Budget, wrote a memorandum formally asking Congess to reduce the funds to NPR and PBS. (Jacquelyn Martin/AP)
Last month, Kerger of PBS and the CEO of NPR, Katherine Maher, testified to the subcommittee of Dugo and looked over the alleged biased content when the Republicans asked that their federal funds be revoked.
PBS website States receives funds in part of the CPB, which receives approximately $ 500 million a year approved by Congress, saying that “CPB assigns the allocation mainly to public radio and television stations, with some assigned.”
“He News time Receives about 35% of its annual financing/budget of CPB and PBS through national programming funds: a combination of apopriation funds and annual programming fees paid to PBS for stations reallocated to programs such as ours. The remaining 65% is generated from individual donations, subsidies of corporate foundations and sponsorships, “says PBS.
PBS also receives money through the PBS Foundation, a non -profit organization 501 (c) (3) and a support organization 509 (a) (3) that seeks “gifts and philanthropic subsidies” to finance the exit.
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The CEO of the Public Radio of National, Katherine Maher, and the CEO of the public broadcasting service, Paula Kerger, swore before a supervision audience of the Chamber and Government reform in the United States Capitol on March 26, 2025. (Andrew Harnik/Getty images)
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According to NPR, 38% of the income comes from corporate sponsorships, 31% come from “Core and other programming rates”, 13% come from “cash contributions and financial assets”, 7% come from “other income”, 5% comes the contract, the endowments of satellite ribnection and the support designed by the Board of the NPR Foundation and 1% comes from the net yield of investments.
The NPR site itself continues to admit that “the station programming rates comprise a significant portion of the NPRS Larst income source. The loss of federal funds would undermine the capacity of the stations of paying NPR for programming, thus weaving the institution.”
The NPR Finance page also insists that the elimination of federal financing would result in less journalism.
Then, while NPR publicly minimizes its government financing, the narrowest stations founded by the Government give NPR effective. All this happens when NPR states that “federal funds is essential”, while going back the notion that the government finances it.
