nam 22 uu 4500 10.59704/4d178583f7090ec8 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 250724s2025||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.59704/4d178583f7090ec8 doi eng 342 23 Kirtley, Jane Author aut An Elusive Touchdown with a Political Football - Trump’s Defunding of Public Broadcasting and Radio Kirtley, Jane Verfassungsblog 2025-07-24 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier 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. CC BY-SA 4.0 democracy Donald Trump Free Media media US Congress Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/public-broadcasting-trump/ raw object