The Trump administration’s financing, PBS, reduces the elimination of 34 other jobs

On Thursday, PBS has informed 34 employees who were demobilized as part of a wider reduction voltage, which has reduced 100 jobs in recent months. The discounts were partially operated Trump administrationRescue Operations package, which reduced more than a billion dollars of federal funding for public broadcasting.

“Because of the loss of federal financing, the PBS has been canceled nearly 100 jobs over the past few months, including 34 professional employees in a TV program that were notified yesterday that their employment ends. At this unprecedented moment, we are still focusing on what matters more: ensuring that the stations of our members can provide quality content and services throughout America,” said a PBS spokesman Fox News digital Friday.

Republicans in the Senate and the House of Representatives passed the rescue package in July, which extracted more than a billion dollars from the funding of the federal broadcast for the fiscal year.

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The Trump package in millions of dollars targeted that spending “wakes up”, including external aid and federal support programs for NPR and PBS, like Republicans Finally, federal funds were extracted from public news in a move that the defenders said was long.

The package prevented $ 8 billion from financing for the USAID Agency (USAID), along with a billion dollars for the public broadcasting company, which is funded by PBS and NPR.

“During the past weeks, we have been working through the best way to manage the effect of federal financing loss,” CEO Paula Kerger wrote to the station’s managers, according to NPR.

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“Just like all the public media organization in the country, we have to make difficult choices,” I continued. “While we have seen good progress from our organization, including an important grant from a major donor to help support” NewShour “and” children “, we realized that we needed major changes in our employees and operations.”

All PBS fields are expected to be affected when federal funding ends on public broadcasting on October 1.

While many Trump supporters praised this step, liberal commentators, legislators and journalists working on a TV program and NPR were sharply critical.

The CEO of NPR Catherine Maher Venins, “deep frustration” on the Republican party discounts, says he will continue to work

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Gabriel Hayes of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.