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Bill · 119th Congress · S 518

Defund Government-Sponsored Propaganda Act

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Introduced 2025-02-11Topic: technology privacy

Summary

Summary by the Congressional Research Service

Defund Government-Sponsored Propaganda Act 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.

Full text and official record on Congress.gov

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Action history

DateChamberActionStatus effect
2025-02-11SenateRead twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.refer
2025-02-11Introduced in Senateintroduce
Source: GovInfo Bill Status (Library of Congress), fetched 2026-09-11. Provisions and opinion polling arrive in a later release.