The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) has permanently closed following the elimination of its federal funding for Fiscal Years 2026 and 2027. The decision was part of a rescission package passed on a partisan basis in July 2025.
U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, commented on the development: "For the first time in nearly 60 years, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting has permanently shuttered its doors. With Trump's attack on the free press and local news disappearing, this silencing of trusted public media comes at the very time Americans need it most. We should be strengthening public broadcasting and local voices, not shutting stations and cutting off rural communities from their only source of emergency alerts and local news. This is a crisis for all communities who have relied on public broadcasting for accurate information, cherished children's programming and trusted local news."
Democrats have proposed a Continuing Resolution that would restore CPB funding for Fiscal Year 2026.
