These are grim times for public radio affiliates in rural New Mexico, including Native American owned and operated stations that have been on air for decades, as the Republican-controlled U.S. Congress and President Donald Trump make good on a push to defund public media.

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which distributes federal funding to both NPR and PBS and more than 1,000 public radio and television stations nationally, recently announced it will shut down next year after being defunded by Congress, which voted last month to claw back more than $500 million of the organization’s annual funding in a party-line vote.

The move has sent public media affiliates in broadcast and radio scrambling to try to close what will be, in some cases, seismic and potentially insurmountable fu

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