As soon as tonight, the House is expected to vote on a bill that would claw back about $9 billion in previously approved funding. It comes over uh the Senate, as the Senate passed those spending cuts overnight, I should say, which needs to be signed by the president by tomorrow night for the proposed cuts to go into effect. The cuts known as recisions passed the Senate mostly on party lines with Republican senators Marowski of Alaska and Collins of Maine signing with the Democrats.The bill claws back $8 bil ...

And joining us now is Tom Abbott, the general manager of KFSK FM, a public radio station that's reliant on that federal funding based out of Petersburg, Alaska, remote island fishing town in the southeastern part of that state. Tom, thanks for being here. Talk about the role your station serves in Alaska, the community you serve.Uh, good morning, Anna. Yeah, thank you. Um, we're a very we're an island community.All of Southeast Alaska is an archipelago of islands where access is by uh air or boat only. We p ...