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Meanwhile, while we scrap for every dollar we need to run our nonprofit newsroom, all it took was a vindictive whim and the stroke of a pen for President Donald Trump to wipe away $1.1 billion in funding for public media.

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Created in 1967 with bipartisan support, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is a cornerstone of America’s media infrastructure. And now it’s being dismantled as political payback, a vendetta against any outlet Trump considers insufficiently loyal.

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