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    <item congress="119" measure-type="s" measure-number="518" measure-id="id119s518" originChamber="SENATE" orig-publish-date="2025-02-11" update-date="2025-06-17">
        <title>Defund Government-Sponsored Propaganda Act</title>
        <summary summary-id="id119s518v00" currentChamber="SENATE" update-date="2025-06-17">
            <action-date>2025-02-11</action-date>
            <action-desc>Introduced in Senate</action-desc>
            <summary-text><![CDATA[<p><strong>Defund Government-Sponsored Propaganda Act</strong></p><p>This bill prohibits federal funding of the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), National Public Radio (NPR), and any successor organization to PBS or NPR. The prohibition extends to the payment of dues to or the purchase of programming from PBS or NPR by a public broadcast station using federal funds.&nbsp;</p><p>The bill also directs the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to transfer to the Department of the Treasury for the purpose of reducing the public debt an amount equal to certain funding that would have otherwise been provided to PBS or NPR in FY2025-FY2027.</p>]]></summary-text>
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