Ken Burns, a documentary filmmaker and director whose work is often published on PBS, criticized Congress's elimination of $1.1 billion of federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB).

“I think we're all in a bit of a state of a shock and also sort of reeling at the shortsightedness of it all,” Burns said Friday to PBS "News Hour" host William Brangham.

“And what's so shortsighted about it, I think, is that this affects mostly rural communities or the hardest hit," he added.

On Thursday, the Republican-controlled House sent a rescissions bill to President Trump’s desk; the bill aims to

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