Defund Government-Sponsored Propaganda Act
Introduced Feb 11, 2025 by Sen. Mike Lee
It's waiting on a committee vote to reach the full chamber. Most bills never leave this stage.
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.
Summary by the Congressional Research Service.
No floor votes yet — it hasn't reached the floor of either chamber.