S 518
119th Congress
Senate
Science, Technology, Communications
Defund Government-Sponsored Propaganda Act
Everywhere this bill has been
2 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Feb 11, 2025
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
Feb 11, 2025
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
Defund Government-Sponsored Propaganda Act
This bill prohibits federal funding of the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), National Public Radio (NPR), and any successor organization to PBS or NPR. The prohibition extends to the payment of dues to or the purchase of programming from PBS or NPR by a public broadcast station using federal funds.
The bill also directs the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to transfer to the Department of the Treasury for the purpose of reducing the public debt an amount equal to certain funding that would have otherwise been provided to PBS or NPR in FY2025-FY2027.
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
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