Public broadcasting executives, facing the biggest threat to taxpayer funding yet, plan to argue that cutting federal support will rob people of “lifesaving” programming.

In a desperate bid to defeat efforts to defund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, National Public Radio, and Public Broadcasting Service, the executives appearing before the House DOGE subcommittee on Wednesday also plan to reject conservative claims of leftist bias.

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