The U.S. House voted June 12th in favor of the 2025 Rescissions Act that would eliminate federal funding for public media. Wednesday, 12:30 MDT, the Senate Appropriations Committee will hold a hearing on the measure. You can watch the hearing live here.
New Mexico Senator Martin Heinrich is a member of the committee. He and fellow New Mexico Senator Ben Ray Lujan have condemned the plan.
The Rescissions Act would claw back $1.1 billion of funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting that had already been approved by Congress for the next two years. For KUNM, that would mean a yearly loss of $270,000.