S 518 119th Congress Senate Science, Technology, Communications

Defund Government-Sponsored Propaganda Act

Introduced: February 11, 2025 Introduced by: Lee, Mike Republican · Utah See on congress.gov

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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.

Feb 11, 2025

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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.

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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.

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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 518: Defund Government-Sponsored Propaganda Act. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-518/

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"S. 518: Defund Government-Sponsored Propaganda Act." 119th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-518/.

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S. 518, 119th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-518/.

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