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The Times reports bills are currently alive in the Senate and House to defund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
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Editorial, Boston Herald, 24 May 2025
Listen to this article Congestion pricing remained in effect Wednesday, in defiance of another deadline from Trump’s Department of Transportation and ongoing federal threats to defund New York City area transit and transportation projects should New York not walk walk back the toll.
—Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 21 May 2025
Meanwhile, Trump is trying to defund programs for poor infants and toddlers in America.
—Tom Zirpoli, Baltimore Sun, 20 May 2025
To defund universities because of faults that have nothing to do with research is to recklessly shut off the spigot to innovation.
—L. Rafael Reif, Foreign Affairs, 6 May 2025
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Editorial, Boston Herald, 24 May 2025
Listen to this article Congestion pricing remained in effect Wednesday, in defiance of another deadline from Trump’s Department of Transportation and ongoing federal threats to defund New York City area transit and transportation projects should New York not walk walk back the toll.
—Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 21 May 2025
Meanwhile, Trump is trying to defund programs for poor infants and toddlers in America.
—Tom Zirpoli, Baltimore Sun, 20 May 2025
To defund universities because of faults that have nothing to do with research is to recklessly shut off the spigot to innovation.
—L. Rafael Reif, Foreign Affairs, 6 May 2025
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“Defund.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/defund. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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