A bill to revoke already allocated federal funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) could jeopardize northern Arizona radio stations serving tribal communities and undermine the effectiveness of a new national alert system intended to help address the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous people.
By a slim margin of , the U.S. House of Representatives approved a bill Thursday, June 12, that would rescind $1.1 billion in funding for CPB at President Donald Trump’s request. That money, approved by Congress in a prior spending bill, represents two years of funding for the nonprofit organization.
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