Congress this week approved a bill that claws back about $9 billion in foreign aid and public broadcasting funds, as Republicans look to begin locking in cuts pursued by his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

The package includes about $8 billion in cuts for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and other foreign aid, as well as more than $1 billion in cuts to the Corporation of Public Broadcasting (CPB), which provides some funding to NPR and PBS.

Here are five things to know about the bill.

NPR and PBS brace for cuts

The bill yanks back more than $1 billion in advanced funding appropriated for CPB over fiscal years 2026 and 2027.

Many Republicans say the cuts are long overdue, singling out NPR and PBS, for what they perceive as political bias. But some are concerned about how the cuts would impact smaller stations.

In the previous fiscal year, NPR received upwards of $13 million from CPB, the corporation’s grants and allocations data shows. More than $70 million went to PBS based in Arlington.

About one percent of NPR’s current operating budget comes directly from the federal government, compared to 15 percent for PBS, multiple outlets report.

At the same time, however, fees from member stations, which rely on a larger share of CPB funding on average, make up about 30 percent of NPR’s funding. PBS says it also receives annual programming dues from stations to carry national programming.

About 35 percent of the annual funding for PBS News Hour, the organization said, comes from CPB and national programming funds it described as “a combination of CPB appropriation funds and annual programming dues paid to PBS by stations re-allocated to programs like ours.”

Public media faces fiscal ‘cliff’ in October

Opponents of the cuts have already sounded alarm about the fiscal “cliff” that some stations will face as a result of the latest legislation come........

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