Funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting

March 16, 2019 12:10 PM

I have looked through the 2020 budget from President Trump trying to find information on funding for CPB. Neither the Departments of HHS, Labor, and Education; the agencies on the sub committee from which CPB funding comes, make mention of support for the agency that supports NPR and PBS.

Perhaps that specific information is in the budget breakdown but I can't find it on the house.budget.gov website as of yet. Maybe I'm looking in the wrong place. But in past years, defunding CPB seemed to be something the administration wanted to highlight. This year, it seems not so much.

posted by CollectiveMind to Law & Government (3 answers total)

The “blueprint” that came out today doesn’t include line-by-line funding requests for federal agencies; Bloomberg says that’s “expected later this month.” But when they do arrive, it’s expected that Trump will, for the third time, propose eliminating all federal funding for public broadcasting — zeroing out the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the entity which then distributes those funds to support public radio and television stations.

The "skinny" budget that was recently released doesn't get into that level of detail. Keep in mind that Congress has repeatedly ignored this element of the President's budget, along with many of his other spending requests.
posted by zachlipton at 2:53 PM on March 16, 2019 [1 favorite]

Also, budget.house.gov belongs to the Democratic majority on the House Budget Committee. Here's the Administration's budget blueprint.
posted by zachlipton at 2:56 PM on March 16, 2019

"The CPB would receive $30 million, down from $465 million..." (Worth noting that similar cuts were proposed by the Trump administration for the 2018 and 2019 budgets, and both times Congress restored it to approximately its previous level.)
posted by DevilsAdvocate at 10:20 AM on March 19, 2019 [1 favorite]