PBS and NPR funding cuts are hitting home as government shutdown looms

(CNN) — Cuts to NPR, PBS and other public media outlets have been in the news all year long, but now the federal funds have actually run out.

With Tuesday marking the end of the federal government’s fiscal year, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is saying farewell to staffers and winding down its operations, implementing the rescission that President Trump promoted and congressional Republicans passed over the summer.

Republicans clawed back $1.1 billion in funds that had been budgeted for public media, leaving local broadcasters in the lurch.

And just as a shutdown sounds like a distant political argument until it affects people personally, the defunding of public media feels more tangible now that stations are cutting back on programming.

Local PBS and NPR affiliates have