Project 2025 does seek to defund NPR and PBS [Video]

Voters are paying more attention to Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation’s plan to transform the federal government during the next conservative administration, as election day draws closer. VERIFY has received dozens of reader questions about Project 2025.

Deborah emailed us to ask if Project 2025 really calls for the government to defund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which provides federal funding for NPR and PBS.

THE QUESTION

Does Project 2025 call for the government to defund NPR and PBS?

THE SOURCES

THE ANSWER

Yes, Project 2025 does call for the government to defund NPR and PBS.

WHAT WE FOUND

Chapter 8of that policy guide is on media agencies. Within that chapter is a section dedicated to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), which the guide says would be “good policy and good politics” to stop …