America’s two big public broadcasters, PBS and NPR, have 45 days to salvage their federal funding — starting now.

The White House formally asked Congress on Tuesday to claw back more than $9 billion in federal funds that lawmakers had already approved for foreign aid and public broadcasting, seeking to codify spending cuts put forward by Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency.

The Trump administration formally requested a rescission of funds for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, seeking to halt federal funding to PBS and NPR.