In May, The Gateway Pundit reported that President Trump called on Congress to “immediately” defund National Public Radio (NPR) and Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) following a House Oversight DOGE subcommittee hearing, which exposed the stations’ already well-known bias and radical content.
In July, the Republican-controlled Senate narrowly approved a sweeping Trump-endorsed rescission bill that slashes nearly $9 billion in previously approved federal spending—including full defunding of PBS and NPR, both of which repeatedly show a left-wing bias.
“Don’t miss this opportunity to rid our Country of this giant SCAM, both being arms of the Radical Left Democrat Party,” the President told Republican majorities in both chambers of Congress.
The New York Times reports that following the aftermath of President Trump’s rescissions package, PBS is slashing 15% of its workforce. Citing the loss of $500 million in federal funding, the move comes after the network had already instituted a funding freeze, paused pay raises, and cut its budget by 21%.
The New York Post reports:
Employees described the mood inside as somber. “It feels like the soul of public television is being gutted,” one staffer told the New York Times.
“The days of American taxpayers being forced to foot the bill for left-wing propaganda are over,” White House spokesperson Liz Huston told The Post.
“President Trump is working to ensure taxpayer dollars are only used responsibly and to benefit hardworking Americans.”
PBS CEO Paula Kerger pushed back on accusations of the leftwork’s anti-Trump bias and their extreme, woke programming, including documentaries about transvestites and transitioning, “Racist Trees,” and exposing young children, including toddlers, to so-called educational programming that featured a cross-dressing freak.
During an interview with CNN, Kerger claimed that “People often struggle to come up with examples” of left-wing bias at PBS.
The CEO of PBS just said she “can’t make any sense of an argument that we are somehow biased in any way” on public broadcasting.
Luckily, we have plenty of examples of the biased trash that passes as “news” at PBS and NPR:
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) July 16, 2025
Senator John Kennedy (R-LA), however, had no trouble cataloguing disturbing examples and noted, “They have the right to say this stuff—but not with your money.”
In August, the far-left Corporation for Public Broadcasting announced plans to begin the process of closing down for good after $1.1 billion was cut from its budget. The majority of its staff is expected to be eliminated by September 30th.
CPB is a private, nonprofit corporation created by Congress to “promote and fund public media in the United States.” Its primary role is to distribute federal funding to public radio and television stations, including those affiliated with PBS and NPR.
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