February 11, 2025
Ms. Tenney introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce
To prohibit Federal funding for the Public Broadcasting Service and National Public Radio and to provide for the transfer of certain Federal funds that would have been made available to those organizations to reduce the public debt, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
Section 1. Short title
This Act may be cited as the Defund Government-Sponsored Propaganda Act
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Sec. 2. Prohibition on Federal funding for Public Broadcasting Service and National Public Radio
(a) In general
After the date of enactment of this Act, no Federal funds may, directly or indirectly, be made available to or used to support an organization described in subsection (b), including through the payment of dues to or the purchase of programming from the organization by a public broadcast station using Federal funds received by the station.
(b) Organizations described
The organizations described in this subsection are—
(1)
the organization known, as of the date of enactment of this Act, as the Public Broadcasting Service
;
(2)
the organization known, as of the date of enactment of this Act, as National Public Radio
; and
(3)
any successor organization to an organization described in paragraph (1) or (2).
(c) Transfer of certain funds To reduce the public debt
For fiscal years 2025, 2026, and 2027, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting shall transfer to the account established by section 3113(d) of title 31, United States Code, an amount equal to the sum of the amounts allocated under clauses (ii) and (iii) of section 396(k)(3)(A) of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 396(k)(3)(A)) that would have been made available to an organization described in subsection (b) but for the prohibition in subsection (a).