http://dx.doi.org/10.59704/4d178583f7090ec8 https://verfassungsblog.de/public-broadcasting-trump/ An Elusive Touchdown with a Political Football - Trump’s Defunding of Public Broadcasting and Radio Kirtley, Jane eng 2025-07-24 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 democracy Donald Trump Free Media media US Congress Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 On July 19, Congress voted to revoke funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting – something it has not done in the 60 years since its creation. In countries with strong public media traditions, this may seem astonishing: Why would Congress defund NPR and PBS after already having appropriated the money? And what does this mean for the First Amendment? To answer these questions, we must consider the peculiar history of public broadcasting in the United States.