Defund Government-Sponsored Propaganda Act

Bill: 119-s-518
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Lee, Mike [R-UT]
Introduced: 2025-02-11
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Latest action: action_date: 2025-02-11
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.

Summaries:
action_date: 2025-02-11
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p><strong>Defund Government-Sponsored Propaganda Act</strong></p><p>This bill prohibits federal funding of the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), National Public Radio (NPR), and any successor organization to PBS or NPR. The prohibition extends to the payment of dues to or the purchase of programming from PBS or NPR by a public broadcast station using federal funds.&nbsp;</p><p>The bill also directs the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to transfer to the Department of the Treasury for the purpose of reducing the public debt an amount equal to certain funding that would have otherwise been provided to PBS or NPR in FY2025-FY2027.</p>

tv_txt: II 119th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 518 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES February 11, 2025 Mr. Lee introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation A BILL To prohibit Federal funding for the Public Broadcasting Service and National Public Radio and to provide for the transfer of certain Federal funds that would have been made available to those organizations to reduce the public debt, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Defund Government-Sponsored Propaganda Act . 2. Prohibition on Federal funding for Public Broadcasting Service and National Public Radio (a) In general After the date of enactment of this Act, no Federal funds may, directly or indirectly, be made available to or used to support an organization described in subsection (b), including through the payment of dues to or the purchase of programming from the organization by a public broadcast station using Federal funds received by the station. (b) Organizations described The organizations described in this subsection are— (1) the organization known, as of the date of enactment of this Act, as the Public Broadcasting Service ; (2) the organization known, as of the date of enactment of this Act, as National Public Radio ; and (3) any successor organization to an organization described in paragraph (1) or (2). (c) Transfer of certain funds To reduce the public debt For fiscal years 2025, 2026, and 2027, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting shall transfer to the account established by section 3113(d) of title 31, United States Code, an amount equal to the sum of the amounts allocated under clauses (ii) and (iii) of section 396(k)(3)(A) of the Communications Act of 1934 ( 47 U.S.C. 396(k)(3)(A) ) that would have been made available to an organization described in subsection (b) but for the prohibition in subsection (a).