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Federal Funding for Public Media Is Close to Becoming a Thing of the Past | 27Speaks Podcast

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27Speaks on Jul 10, 2025


President Donald Trump issued an executive order on May 1 instructing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to cease federal funding for NPR and PBS. Then in June, the U.S. House of Representatives approved a rescission package that revokes $1.1 billion that had been budgeted for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and the U.S. Senate is expected to vote on that package as soon as this week. And on July 3, the Senate approved the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which zeros out Corporation for Public Broadcasting funding going forward.

Bob Feinberg, the chief legal officer for The WNET Group — which includes WLIW FM, WLIW21 and other New York and New Jersey public media outlets — joins the editors and reporter Stephen Kotz to discuss where public media funding stands, what recourse, if any, is available and what's at stake.

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