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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AAWWWWWWWWWWWW
W.I.N.N.I.N.G!
Winning
Cheap liberals not paying their fair share has forced PBS to eliminate 100 jobs.
Thanks for this heart warming story just before bed time. I will sleep like a baby.
Excellent news!
That’s why when I fish I use dynamite
In the 1990s recession I saw that many employees terminated in six months at the small company where I worked. Weren’t we told that federal funding was only a small part of their operations? Obviously PBS was far more government funded than the public or even Congress knew or cared.
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