John Harris, president of Prairie Public, said Wednesday he is pessimistic about federal funds continuing to flow to PBS and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting after Vice President JD Vance cast the tie-breaking vote to advance a bill that claws back previously approved funding.

Baseball’s All-Star Game, which featured the contest’s first swing-off to determine the winner, averaged 7,185,000 viewers on Fox, according to Nielsen.

The legislation, which now moves to the House, would have a tiny impact on the nation's rising debt but could have major ramifications for the targeted spending, from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to U.