NPR, PBS and Trump
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Roughly $1.1 billion of the targeted cut would defund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the non-profit that supports NPR and PBS.
FAILED APPEAL: One local conservative guest columnist appealed to Congress to save funding for public broadcasting. Oklahoma's statewide PBS station, OETA, reinforced that we are all fellow Americans and patriots before we are members of a particular partisan club, Garrett T. King wrote in May.
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The New Republic on MSNOnly Two Republicans Voted Against Trump Defunding Sesame StreetAlaska’s Lisa Murkowski and Maine’s Susan Collins joined Senate Democrats in opposition to Republican cuts to organizations like PBS and NPR, and the smaller stations that they fund. While PBS and NPR would still continue at the national level, the cuts would likely devastate those local stations that rely on them.
Sesame Street, the award-winning children's program turns 50 this year. As the iconic TV program has aged, it has managed to stay musically apace with its forever-young audience.