President Donald Trump formally asked Congress on Tuesday to rescind $9.4 billion in spending lawmakers had previously approved, jeopardizing federal funding for Montana’s public media organizations.

Yellowstone Public Radio in central and eastern Montana, Montana Public Radio in the western half of the state, Montana PBS television network and Bozeman-based alt music station KGLT face a combined $2.6 million shortfall this autumn. Montana PBS receives almost 70% of those funds.

When Trump signed a separate executive order in early May aimed at cutting funding for public media entities, he said they “receive millions from taxpayers to spread radical, woke propaganda disguised as ‘news.’” PBS has since sued the Trump administration over that executive order, as has NPR.

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