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GOP-led Senate votes to cancel $9 billion in funding for foreign aid, NPR and PBS
The spending cuts package, requested by the White House, heads back to the House ahead of a Friday deadline for Trump to sign ...
Senate passes $9B in spending cuts -- including cuts to public broadcasting and USAID
President Donald Trump requested the cuts, which include significant cuts to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the ...
PBS CEO Blasts Senate’s ‘Devastating’ $1.1 Billion Funding Cut: ‘Against the Will of the American People’
PBS CEO Paula Kerger blasted the Senate revoking $1.1 billion in funding, saying it would be "especially devastating" to ...
Local public media stations brace for 'worst case scenario' after Senate approves cuts to NPR, PBS
Public broadcasting stations in the state are bracing for big changes. In Moline, WQPT’s general manager Dawn Schmitt said ...
Join the Club: Lisa Murkowski Hasn’t Finished ‘Master of the Senate’
The Alaska lawmaker was given a copy when first appointed to the Senate in 2002 and it’s still on her bedside table. “Far ...
Auburn's Bruce Pearl pumps brakes on US Senate rumors
Auburn Tigers men's basketball head coach Bruce Pearl opened up about the possibility of him running for a U.S. Senate seat ...
Senate sends $9 billion rescissions package to the House
The Senate early Thursday narrowly passed, 51-48, a $9 billion foreign aid and public media rescissions package, sending the ...