A taxpayer-funded nonprofit that partly financed PBS and NPR announced Monday it will dissolve completely, five months after it announced it was shutting down due to President Donald Trump and Congress slashing its funding.
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) said in a Monday press release that its Board of Directors voted to shut the 58-year-old entity down, citing the $9 billion rescissions package that Congress passed and Trump signed in July 2025, which trimmed $1.1 billion of its taxpayer-funding over two years. The nonprofit also said a factor in its decision to dissolve was what it called “sustained political attacks that made it impossible for CPB to continue operating as the Public Broadcasting Act intended.”
“When the Administration and Congress rescinded federal funding, our Board faced a profound responsibility: CPB’s final act would be to protect the integrity of the public media system and the democratic values by dissolving, rather than allowing the organization to remain defunded and vulnerable to additional attacks,” CPB President and CEO Patricia Harrison said in the press release.
“CPB’s Board determined that without the resources to fulfill its congressionally mandated responsibilities, maintaining the corporation as a nonfunctional entity would not serve the public interest or advance the goals of public media,” the now-defunct nonprofit’s press release stated. “A dormant and defunded CPB could have become vulnerable to future political manipulation or misuse, threatening the independence of public media and the trust audiences place in it, and potentially subjecting staff and board members to legal exposure from bad-faith actors.”
Republican lawmakers hailed the end of the main entity that channeled taxpayer dollars to PBS and NPR — both of which conservatives have long alleged to have had left-wing biases — with celebratory messages on social media.
“We exposed their woke practices, defunded them, and now they’re gone,” the X account of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform’s GOP majority wrote.
“The Corporation for Public Broadcasting—which funneled your money to NPR and PBS to call birds, roads, and country music racist—is officially DISSOLVED. Good riddance,” Republican Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy wrote in a Monday post to X.
In his post, Kennedy also included a video of remarks he gave on the Senate floor in July 2025, during debate on the recessions package, during which he listed headlines run by NPR he deemed examples of left-wing bias. These headlines included “How racism became a marketing tool for country music” and “Donald Trump’s Long Embrace Of Vladimir Putin.”
Created by the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, the CPB was a relic of former President Lyndon B. Johnson’s “Great Society” initiatives.
The CPB announced in an August 2025 press release that it would wind down operations as a direct result of the recessions package Trump signed just over a week prior.
“CPB informed its employees today that the majority of staff positions will conclude with the close of the fiscal year on September 30, 2025. A small transition team will remain through January 2026 to ensure a responsible and orderly closeout of operations,” the Aug. 1, 2025 press release said.
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