Republicans are poised to achieve their long-standing goal of eliminating federal funding for public broadcasting, following Senate approval of a $9 billion package of cuts tied to the Department of Government Efficiency initiative.

After days of debate, parliamentarian maneuvers, and more opportunities than we would frankly like for J.D. Vance to be at least nominally important to the national decision-making process, the United States Senate passed a bill in the early hours of Thursday morning that would defund the Corporation Of Public Broadcasting—the independent agency through which the government funds both PBS and NPR—to the tune of more than a billion dollars.