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Joe Biden’s $6 trillion budget plan, released on Friday, reverses a policy of his predecessor in that increases, rather than decreases, the federal outlay for the arts and public broadcasting. For four years, President Donald Trump’s White House proposed federal budgets that zeroed out funding to the Corporation for Pu…

President Donald Trump’s proposed new budget again calls for all but eliminating funding for public media, but it’s highly unlikely that will happen. This is the fourth year in a row the White House has called for slashing funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which provides funding to public TV…

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the National Endowment for the Arts each got funding boosts in the government funding agreement passed by the House on Tuesday. House and Senate negotiators agreed to a $20 million increase in funding for CPB, which distributes grants to public television stations and other…

Responding to the Trump Administration's third proposal to eliminate federal funding for public media, PBS President and CEO Paula Kerger issued a statement on Monday: PBS and our 350 member stations across the country have earned bipartisan Congressional support over the years due to the high value the American peop…

President Donald Trump’s proposed 2018 federal budget released today would cut federal spending by $4.5 trillion over the next 10 years and do so by drastically slashing or eliminating social programs like Medicaid and food stamps, student aid and Planned Parenthood. It also proposes scrapping the National Endowment fo…

The House Appropriations Committee’s fiscal year 2017 omnibus appropriations bill includes increased funding for the National Endowment for the Arts and Humanities, as well as continued funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. All three had been eyed for elimination in earlier Donald Trump administration…

UPDATE March 17: An investigation by Vice news determined that these tweets were not from then-SOS designate Tillerson, but from an impersonator. The account has been shut down. EARLIER: A week after reports were floated suggesting that the Trump administration would seek to eliminate the National Endowment for the Art…

Hours before his inauguration tomorrow, Donald Trump appears ready to approve budget-cutting plans that would outsource public radio and television financing while killing altogether federal support of the arts and humanities. The plans were revealed Thursday morning by the D.C. newspaper The Hill, which reported that…