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The Corporation for Public Broadcasting called its dissolution “an act of responsible stewardship to protect the future of public media,” emphasizing that it was the board’s final effort to defend the system it was created to serve. “When the Administration and Congress rescinded federal funding,” said CPB President and CEO Patricia Harrison, “our Board faced a profound responsibility: CPB’s final act would be to protect the integrity of the public media system and the democratic values by dissolving, rather than allowing the organization to remain defunded and vulnerable to additional attacks.”
The organization further claimed that “a dormant and defunded CPB could have become vulnerable to future political manipulation or misuse, threatening the independence of public media and the trust audiences place in it, and potentially subjecting staff and board members to legal exposure from bad-faith actors.”
According to the CPB, the decision to close came after Congress terminated all remaining federal funding and passed a $9 billion rescissions package in mid-2025, which included $1.1 billion in cuts to the CPB. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson praised the legislation at the time for eliminating “wasteful spending” and for defunding what he described as “politically biased media outlets like NPR and PBS.”
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The organization further claimed that “a dormant and defunded CPB could have become vulnerable to future political manipulation or misuse, threatening the independence of public media and the trust audiences place in it, and potentially subjecting staff and board members to legal exposure from bad-faith actors.”
According to the CPB, the decision to close came after Congress terminated all remaining federal funding and passed a $9 billion rescissions package in mid-2025, which included $1.1 billion in cuts to the CPB. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson praised the legislation at the time for eliminating “wasteful spending” and for defunding what he described as “politically biased media outlets like NPR and PBS.”
Corporation for Public Broadcasting Cancels Itself: Votes to Dissolve to 'Protect the Future of Public Media'
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) has announced that its board of directors has formally voted to dissolve the organization.
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