Emmys 2025 Politics: Congress Gets Booed For Voting To Defund Public Broadcasting

There were many cheers and a few standing ovations at the Emmys, but also a loud chorus of boos.

Those jeers were directed at Congress for voting to defund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, putting in jeopardy the future of some stations and forcing major cuts at PBS and NPR.

Academy Chairman Cris Abrego opened his speech by noting that the Emmys honored the Cpb last week at the Creative Arts ceremony.

Noting some of the programming funded by Cpb, he noted Sesame Street and Finding Your Roots, and then said, “In many small towns, those stations weren’t just a cultural lifeline, they were the only Emergency Alert System families could count on. But at the end of this year, Cpb will close its doors because Congress has voted to defund it.”

The audience booed.

He then went on to say that it was another example where “yet another cultural institution” had been silenced,…