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NPR CEO Katherine Maher addresses future of federal funding for public media
Katherine Maher, president and CEO of National Public Radio, talks with NPR's Mary Louise Kelly about the White House ...
NPR, PBS honchos face tense grilling by GOP lawmakers over biased coverage, taxpayer funding
NPR CEO Katherine Maher and PBS CEO Paula Kerger testified before the DOGE subcommittee on Wednesday about alleged biased ...
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Trump White House to Ask Congress to Defund NPR, PBS, And USAID — Claw Back $9 Billion in Funds
Defenders of both USAID and Voice of America have decried killing key levers of global soft power that enhance U.S. national ...
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Trump administration plans to ask Congress to defund PBS, NPR
PBS CEO Paula Kerger said that the loss of funding would devastate local stations, "particularly smaller and rural stations ...
PBS chief warns cutting federal money will 'devastate' local stations as White House seeks to pull funding
PBS chief Paula Kerger offered an impassioned response to the White House moving forward with its plans to cut federal ...
White House readies plan for Congress to ax taxpayer funding for NPR, PBS
White House budget director Russ Vought wants to claw back $1.1 billion appropriated for the Corporation for Public ...
Trump planning to cut federal funding for NPR, PBS
A White House source confirmed to NPR that the Trump administration will send a plan to Congress proposing to end federal ...
White House rescissions package cuts $1.1 billion from PBS, $8.3 billion from USAID
Conservatives have long targeted public broadcasting for spending cuts, and foreign aid historically enjoys low support in ...
In Light of Testimony, We Should End Funding for NPR and PBS
NPR CEO Katherine Maher and PBS CEO Paula Krueger testified in front of Congress about allegedly biased journalism in each of ...
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NPR CEO Katherine Maher addresses future of federal funding for public media
This comes in the wake of a House Oversight and Government Reform subcommittee hearing in late March, which called PBS CEO Paula Kerger and NPR CEO Katherine Maher to testify on what Republican ...