America’s two big public broadcasters, PBS and NPR, have 45 days to salvage their federal funding — starting now.

The White House formally asked Congress on Tuesday to claw back more than $9 billion in federal funds that lawmakers had already approved for foreign aid and public broadcasting, seeking to codify spending cuts put forward by Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency.

President Trump formally asked Congress to rescind $9.4 billion in already approved funding for foreign aid and Corporation of Public Broadcasting (CPB), which funds NPR and PBS. Why it matters: The rescissions package is an attempt to codify DOGE-driven cuts amid a wider push a wider push from the Trump administration to target traditional news organizations Republicans perceive as as biased against them.