The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which funnels federal money to public media stations, says it's winding down ...

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting announced Friday that it will begin shutting down, weeks after Congress canceled ...

But in these shutdown standoffs, it can still be a lifetime. I think a lot of times leadership likes to prove they exhausted every option before the most realistic one has to pass.

Getting ahead of the shutdown was better politically for those vulnerable members. Remember, he only has a four-seat majority in the House, and he wants to keep it in the next election.

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting said today it will start winding down its operations after it lost federal funding.