(July 18) Congress has voted to pass the rescission bill requested by the Trump Administration, which claws back $1.1 billion in funding for public media previously appropriated by Congress. (The $9 billion rescission bill also included foreign aid.) Read more.
For WERU this means the loss of 25% of our annual revenue, which we will have to raise from other sources (an additional $125,000 by the end of the year). We thank everyone who supports WERU as we deal with this new financial reality. Our thanks as well to everyone who called and wrote to our Congressional delegation urging them to support community media by opposing the rescission bill.
Statement from the National Federation of Community Broadcasters (read more).