WGAE Urges Senate to Halt Effort to Defund PBS and NPR, Says House Vote Is 'Fueled by Radical Right-Wing Ideology'

The Writers Guild of America East (WGAE) condemned the House vote on Thursday to cut a previously allocated $1.1 billion for public broadcasting, blasting the move as "a radical right-wing ideology that aims to destroy a non-partisan public service despite all evidence of its wide benefits." H.R. 4, the Rescissions Act of 2025, impacts funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which provides money for National Public Radio (NPR) and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), as well as thousands of public radio and television stations across the country. The vote to slash that . . .