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Federal Funds Cut for Public Broadcasting

July 25, 2025

7.25.25 – Earlier this month, Congress approved President Trump’s request to strip away the next two years of funds previously allocated to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. As a result, our local public television station and about 1,500 others — along with the national PBS and NPR networks — will no longer receive federal funding starting in October. This week, we invited two local opinion columnists to continue a debate that has been heard in Washington D.C. for years: Should taxpayer dollars fund public broadcasting? 

Correspondent: Trip Jennings 

Guests: 
Inez Russell Gomez, Opinion Editor, Santa Fe New Mexican 
Jeff Tucker, Opinion Contributor, Albuquerque Journal 

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GOP-led Congress claws back billions in foreign aid, public media funds – NMPBS