The Corporation for Public Broadcasting announced that its board has voted to dissolve the organization after 58 years, following Congress’s decision last year to cut federal funding for NPR and PBS.
“For more than half a century, CPB existed to ensure that all Americans—regardless of geography, income, or background—had access to trusted news, educational programming, and local storytelling,” CPB president and CEO Patricia Harrison said in a statement Monday. “When the Administration and Congress rescinded federal funding, our Board faced a profound responsibility: CPB’s final act would be to protect the integrity of the public media system and the democratic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.”
“What has happened to public media is devastating,” CPB’s Board of Directors chair Ruby Calvert said. “After nearly six decades of innovative, educational public television and radio service, Congress eliminated all funding for CPB, leaving the Board with no way to continue the organization or support the public media system that depends on it. Yet, even in this moment, I am convinced that public media will survive, and that a new Congress will address public media’s role in our country because it is critical to our children’s education, our history, culture and democracy to do so.”
CPB said it will distribute its remaining funds before its official closure, after announcing in August that it would shut down operations due to the loss of federal funding.
For decades, Republicans have pushed to end public media funding distributed through CPB to NPR and PBS, a goal realized last summer when President Trump and GOP lawmakers rescinded the funding in a spending bill. In recent years, NPR and PBS have faced criticism from Trump and GOP lawmakers over political bias.
NPR CEO Katherine Maher and PBS CEO Paula Kerger defended their networks during March testimony on Capitol Hill, where Republicans pressed them over accusations of bias and promoting far-left views.
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting—which funneled your money to NPR and PBS to call birds, roads, and country music racist—is officially DISSOLVED.
Good riddance.pic.twitter.com/jjgUGcRjP9
— John Kennedy (@SenJohnKennedy) January 5, 2026
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