President Trump is proposing to end all federal funding for public broadcasting. Now a budget battle is beginning, and brands like PBS and NPR say they are ready to fight -- again. In other words, public broadcasting officials and their supporters on Capitol Hill have been through this before. Public media was expected to be in Trump's cross-hairs. The budget also proposes severing all federal funding for the National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities, which are resources for public media producers.
Source: CNN March 16, 2017 13:18 UTC