Posted on 09/05/2025 4:51:49 PM PDT by Libloather
PBS informed 34 staffers Thursday they were being laid off as part of a broader downsizing effort that's resulted in 100 jobs being cut in recent months. The cuts were triggered in part by the Trump administration’s rescission package, which slashed over $1 billion in federal funding for public broadcasting.
"Due to the loss of federal funding, PBS eliminated close to 100 positions over the last several months, including 34 valued PBS staff members notified yesterday their employment is ending. In this unprecedented moment, we remain focused on what matters most: ensuring our member stations can deliver quality content and services to communities across America," a PBS spokesperson told Fox News Digital on Friday.
Republicans in the Senate and House narrowly passed the rescissions package in July that yanked over $1 billion in federal broadcast funding for the fiscal year.
Trump’s multibillion-dollar clawback package targeted what he called "woke" spending, including foreign aid programs and federal support for NPR and PBS, as Republicans finally yanked federal money from public news outlets in a move advocates said was long overdue.
The package blocked $8 billion in funding to the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), along with $1 billion to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which funds PBS and NPR.
"Over the last weeks, we have been working through how best to manage the impact of loss of federal funding," CEO Paula Kerger wrote to station managers, according to NPR.
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That is all of Sesame Street.
Well at least Oscar owns his own trash can.
Does this mean the end to free tote bags???????????
What, only 100! Thousands should be seeking barista jobs at Starbucks.
That’s all you get for billions? of course it is...
34 valued PBS staff members AKA 34 committed rats.
Most probably on Hillary staff then campaigning for Kamala, then PBS lackeys. Then out on the sidewalk.
All that woke talent going waste. /s
I heard they’re good prospects for cleaning and transporting portable toilets at outdoor events. Finally the optimal skill level/work task requirement balance found for them.
I was looking at my paycheck today, so much removed from it. I live in New York, not by choice, so try to imagine. It’s literally the same feeling I get while fishing, spend a lot of time and effort getting the bait just right, putting it the right way on the hook, cast it, and these little bastards you can’t see underwater pick at it over and over and over until when you pull it up, there’s nothing left.
There was a time when PBS and NPR were needed for under serviced areas.
That time has long passed.
They are presently just a jobs program for
Liberal Democrats nobody wants to hire.
Too much trouble with employees.
Nobody that wants to make money and produce things
wants to hire a liberal Democrat.
It’s a start.
How about another 5,000?
Oh noes, anyways....
I used to watch some things on PBS. I haven’t now in years. They really took a high dive off the lefty cliff.
Tote bags I shall have!
Or NOT...🤣🤣🤣
8B from USAID?
And this has been going on for 30 years at least
Drop in the bucket...
I hear he's been borrowing against the equity. The bank might repossess it.
About time,,,,they have been sponging off of taxpayers at unbelievable salaries.
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