Paula Kerger, the longtime president and CEO of PBS, worries that local stations in underserved areas have the most to lose in the administration’s latest budget cuts.
Kerger fears that a funding cut of that size could imperil universal access to public broadcasting, restricting the ability of Americans in rural communities to watch arts and educational programming or show their children “Sesame Street.”
The past two years, Congress has essentially ignored Trump’s suggestion to defund public broadcasting, continuing its appropriations at essentially the same levels that have been doled out annually for the past decade.“We have very strong support in the House and the Senate [on] both sides of the aisle,” Kerger said. “I’m very sympathetic. [There are] very hard decisions to be made about where federal money should be spent.
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