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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION S. 518 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To prohibit Federal funding for the Public Broadcasting Service and National |
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| 6 | 6 | | Public Radio and to provide for the transfer of certain Federal funds |
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| 7 | 7 | | that would have been made available to those organizations to reduce |
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| 8 | 8 | | the public debt, and for other purposes. |
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| 9 | 9 | | IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES |
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| 10 | 10 | | FEBRUARY11, 2025 |
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| 11 | 11 | | Mr. L |
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| 12 | 12 | | EEintroduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to |
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| 13 | 13 | | the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation |
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| 14 | 14 | | A BILL |
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| 15 | 15 | | To prohibit Federal funding for the Public Broadcasting |
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| 16 | 16 | | Service and National Public Radio and to provide for |
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| 17 | 17 | | the transfer of certain Federal funds that would have |
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| 18 | 18 | | been made available to those organizations to reduce |
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| 19 | 19 | | the public debt, and for other purposes. |
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| 20 | 20 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 21 | 21 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 22 | 22 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 23 | 23 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Defund Government- 4 |
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| 24 | 24 | | Sponsored Propaganda Act’’. 5 |
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| 27 | 27 | | •S 518 IS |
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| 28 | 28 | | SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON FEDERAL FUNDING FOR PUBLIC 1 |
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| 29 | 29 | | BROADCASTING SERVICE AND NATIONAL 2 |
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| 30 | 30 | | PUBLIC RADIO. 3 |
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| 31 | 31 | | (a) I |
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| 32 | 32 | | NGENERAL.—After the date of enactment of 4 |
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| 33 | 33 | | this Act, no Federal funds may, directly or indirectly, be 5 |
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| 34 | 34 | | made available to or used to support an organization de-6 |
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| 35 | 35 | | scribed in subsection (b), including through the payment 7 |
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| 36 | 36 | | of dues to or the purchase of programming from the orga-8 |
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| 37 | 37 | | nization by a public broadcast station using Federal funds 9 |
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| 38 | 38 | | received by the station. 10 |
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| 39 | 39 | | (b) O |
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| 40 | 40 | | RGANIZATIONSDESCRIBED.—The organizations 11 |
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| 41 | 41 | | described in this subsection are— 12 |
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| 42 | 42 | | (1) the organization known, as of the date of 13 |
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| 43 | 43 | | enactment of this Act, as the ‘‘Public Broadcasting 14 |
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| 44 | 44 | | Service’’; 15 |
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| 45 | 45 | | (2) the organization known, as of the date of 16 |
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| 46 | 46 | | enactment of this Act, as ‘‘National Public Radio’’; 17 |
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| 47 | 47 | | and 18 |
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| 48 | 48 | | (3) any successor organization to an organiza-19 |
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| 49 | 49 | | tion described in paragraph (1) or (2). 20 |
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| 50 | 50 | | (c) T |
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| 51 | 51 | | RANSFER OFCERTAINFUNDSTOREDUCE THE 21 |
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| 52 | 52 | | P |
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| 53 | 53 | | UBLICDEBT.—For fiscal years 2025, 2026, and 2027, 22 |
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| 54 | 54 | | the Corporation for Public Broadcasting shall transfer to 23 |
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| 55 | 55 | | the account established by section 3113(d) of title 31, 24 |
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| 56 | 56 | | United States Code, an amount equal to the sum of the 25 |
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| 57 | 57 | | amounts allocated under clauses (ii) and (iii) of section 26 |
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| 60 | 60 | | •S 518 IS |
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| 61 | 61 | | 396(k)(3)(A) of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 1 |
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| 62 | 62 | | U.S.C. 396(k)(3)(A)) that would have been made available 2 |
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| 63 | 63 | | to an organization described in subsection (b) but for the 3 |
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| 64 | 64 | | prohibition in subsection (a). 4 |
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