{"id":47522,"date":"2025-07-25T13:57:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T20:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newmexicopbs.org\/productions\/newmexicoinfocus\/?p=47522"},"modified":"2025-07-28T13:49:25","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T20:49:25","slug":"federal-funds-cut-for-public-broadcasting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newmexicopbs.org\/productions\/newmexicoinfocus\/federal-funds-cut-for-public-broadcasting\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal Funds Cut for Public Broadcasting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Federal Funds Cut for Public Broadcasting\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Wia0WT0Hiwg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>7.25.25 <\/strong>\u2013<strong> <\/strong>Earlier this month, Congress approved President Trump&#8217;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 \u2014 along with the national PBS and NPR networks \u2014 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?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Correspondent:<\/strong>&nbsp;Trip Jennings&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Guests:<\/strong>&nbsp;<br>Inez Russell Gomez, Opinion Editor, Santa Fe New Mexican&nbsp;<br>Jeff Tucker, Opinion Contributor, Albuquerque Journal&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>For More Information:<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newmexicopbs.org\/productions\/newmexicoinfocus\/gop-led-congress-claws-back-billions-in-foreign-aid-public-media-funds\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>GOP-led Congress claws back billions in foreign aid, public media funds<\/em><\/a>&nbsp;&#8211; <em>NMPBS<\/em>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>7.25.25 \u2013 Earlier this month, Congress approved President Trump&#8217;s request to strip away the next two years of funds previously allocated to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. 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