119th Congress · SENATE BILLBILL

S. 518 — Defund Government-Sponsored Propaganda Act

“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.”

Science, technology, communications

Introduced Feb 11, 2025

Last action Feb 11, 2025

Pipeline · Bill → Law

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Introduced

Feb 11, 2025

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Referred

Feb 11, 2025

Commerce, Science, and Transportation

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Committee

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Senate

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House floor

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Resolve Changes

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SummaryCRS Summary

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. 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.

Provisions · 2 sectionsIntroduced in Senate

Timeline · 2 actions

Feb 11, 2025

Introduced in Senate

Feb 11, 2025

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.