The Colorado Sun: President Donald Trump is not the first Republican in office to go after the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the Kennedy-era nonprofit that manages federal funding to thousands of local TV and radio stations. But he is the first one to succeed.

On July 18, Congress approved a $9 billion rescissions request that will claw back $1.1 billion in CPB funding, eliminating all federal support from NPR and PBS — which Trump has repeatedly called politically biased — and inflicting collateral damage on hundreds of local member stations.

“Federal funding has had bipartisan support for almost 50 years because of senators understanding the importance of public TV and radio to their very rural communities,” said Tami Graham, executive director of KSUT in southwestern Colorado. “They get it. I mean, they got it. They got it until now.”

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