Trump's Culture War Offensive Is Working

House Gets Opportunity To Defund USAID, PBS, And NPR

By George Caldwell, The Daily Signal | June 11, 2025 House Republicans on Thursday will face perhaps the greatest test yet of whether they mean business about decreasing the size of the federal government. The House Republican Conference will vote on a legislative package to cut funding from foreign aid, as well as from the publicly funded National Public Radio and Public Broadcasting Service. According to the White House and House leadership, t…

Trump's culture war offensive is working

The past month has seen bold advances in Donald Trump’s crusade to recapture cultural ground that the Left had conquered in recent decades. Whether on museums, media, or universities, the president is on the offensive and the Left is in retreat. Last week alone saw advances on two fronts: a congressional win against NPR and PBS, and a retreat by the Smithsonian. The House of Representatives’ 214-212 vote on Thursday to rescind $1.1 billion that …

What U.S. House Vote to Defund Public Media Means for Santa Barbara

The Trump administration’s move to claw back public media funding would affect local radio and TV stations across the country, including here.

Rural & Native stations would bear the brunt of public media cuts

This article originally appeared on High Country News.Late last fall, members of Bethel, Alaska’s search and rescue team met at the local public radio station, KYUK, for a program called River Watch. Over an hour and a half, they took calls from listeners around the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, comparing notes on the safety of the ice at different points along the Kuskokwim River.“Happy Thanksgiving to everyone out there,” said a caller from the villa…