The US Senate voted to rescind two years' worth of funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), delivering a blow to public radio and television stations around the country. The CPB is a publicly funded nonprofit corporation that supports NPR and PBS stations.

The Senate voted early Thursday to strip $1.1 billion in funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, in a severe blow to NPR and PBS.

The Senate has passed about $9 billion in federal spending cuts requested by President Donald Trump, including deep reductions to public broadcasting and foreign aid.

The Senate on Wednesday afternoon started a process is dubbed vote-a-rama, where members can offer up amendments. Democrats plan to offer a series of changes, including ones that would alleviate the impact of the cuts. They include measures to provide continued funding for rural and tribal area stations, emergency alerts and public safety.