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CBHagman

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9. Trump tried to privatize the Corporation for Public Broadcasting in his first term.

Reply to OnlinePoker (Reply #6)

Sun Mar 16, 2025, 08:28 PM

Mar 2025

And on top of that, he tried to zero out all funding for the arts and humanities. Congress wasn't biting.

But in the second term Trump is pretty much in ax murderer mode, swinging at anything that moves. However, I don't know how that would work with public broadcasting, given that stations rely on various sources of funding.

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