Budget Proposes Defunding PBS, NPR

It’s a less than wonderful kind of day for PBS, as President Trump has once again embarked on a quest to gut public-media funding.

The White House released its 2019 budget proposal Monday, which calls for cuts to programs like Medicaid while boosting military spending and designating money for the border wall. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) would be hit especially hard, with President Trump's proposal rescinding "all but $15 million of each [fiscal year] 2019 and FY 2020 funding for public media," CPB president and CEO Patricia Harrison wrote.