The clawback measure's approval achieves a longstanding goal of Trump's to cut funding for the Public Broadcasting Service and National Public Radio.

New York's public TV and radio stations are looking to drum up new revenue after President Trump and Republicans in Congress stripped their funding.

NPR and PBS stations say they are facing significant funding gaps after the Republican-led Congress's approval of more than $1 billion in cuts.

With listeners in every Colorado congressional district, many in rural areas, the radio stations are funded in part by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican-led Congress has passed President Donald Trump’s request to claw back about $9 billion in public broadcasting and foreign aid spending.

Federal funding cuts to public radio and television stations, which threaten the existence of some small broadcasters on the continent, are expected to have a muted immediate impact on Hawaiʻi broadcasters and their listeners, viewers and staffs, despite dealing the stations financial blows.

The rescissions package the Senate approved early Thursday pulls more than $1 billion from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) that provides federal funding for NPR and PBS.

The US Senate voted to rescind two years' worth of funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), delivering a blow to public radio and television stations around the country. The CPB is a publicly funded nonprofit corporation that supports NPR and PBS stations.