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SENATE 518119th CongressResolution agreed to in Senate without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S8487)

A resolution designating October 2025 as "National Principals Month".

Last Action
12/3/2025

Actions

  • 2025-02-11Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
  • 2025-02-11Introduced in Senate

CRS Summary

As of 2025-02-11 (00)

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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