CPB appropriation arrives despite federal shutdown

Public broadcasting’s federal subsidies were not caught up in the political stalemate that forced closure of the federal government Oct. 1. The US Treasury delivered the Corporation for Public Broadcasting’s $445 million fiscal 2014 appropriation that same day, as scheduled, while political leaders in Congress and the White House wrangled over tea party Republicans’ push to repeal the Affordable Health Care for America Act. The federal budget that has been held up by a faction of GOP lawmakers will determine CPB’s funding for 2016.