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Trump’s $1.1 Billion Public Broadcasting Clawback Faces Pushback in the Senate

Some Republican senators are voicing concern over the House-passed bill that would rescind $9 billion that Congress already approved, including money for NPR and PBS stations in their states.

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The PBS headquarters in Arlington, Va.

Trump Asks Congress to Claw Back $9 Billion for Foreign Aid, NPR and PBS

The request seeks to codify spending cuts advanced by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency.

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Speaker Mike Johnson and President Trump at the Capitol last month. Mr. Johnson said the funding cuts the president wants would help restore “fiscal sanity.”
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