The president of PBS is warning that the cuts President Trump is proposing to the public broadcaster's budget would have a major negative impact on the network.
"The effort underway to get Congress to rescind public media funding would disrupt the essential service PBS and local member stations provide to the American people," PBS President Paula Kerger said in a statement issued on Tuesday. "There’s nothing more American than PBS, and our work is only possible because of the bipartisan support we have always received from Congress."
The White House confirmed to The Hill on Monday that it is planning a rescission package that will seek to have Congress claw back more than $9 billion in already approved funding through cuts to public broadcasting, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and other government agencies.
Trump and his allies in Congress have long criticized public broadcasters like NPR and PBS over what they say is liberal bias in news coverage and hostility toward conservatives.
Last month, the House Oversight and Government Reform subcommittee held a hearing with Kerger and NPR CEO Katherine Maher during which Republicans vowed to cut funding to the outlets.
"Rescinding these funds would devastate PBS member stations and the essential role they play in communities, particularly smaller and rural stations who rely on federal funding for a larger portion of their budgets," Kerger said. "Without PBS member stations, Americans will lose unique local programming and emergency services in times of crisis."
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