President Donald Trump s proposal to slash funding to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting wouldnt threaten to reduce programming at RSU, a public television station in rural Oklahoma. It would end it.

If the cuts go through with the CPB, my station would no longer exist, station manager Royal Allis told The Huffington Post. We would have to turn the lights out.

Republicans lawmakers have tried for decades to eliminate funding for the 50-year-old CPB, even though the $445 million its allocated each year accounts for just 0.01 percent of the federal budget. The attacks on public broadcasting have long been tied to politics, as some critics perceive outlets like NPR and PBS as having a liberal slant.

And yet the Americans likely to be hit hardest by the proposed cuts live in deep red, rural parts of the country that overwhelmingly voted for Trump.

NPR and PBS would both be adversely affected by cuts. Those national organizations receive some funding directly from the CPB, and local stations around the country may license NPR and PBS programs using money from the federal government. More than 90 percent of CPB funding goes to local stations around the country, The Washington Post reported last week and dozens of them rely on this money to make up more than 40 percent of their budgets.

Trump won more than 75 percent of the vote in Rogers County, Oklahoma, where RSU is located and broadcasts to around 1.2 million homes. The station is tied to Rogers State University in the northeastern part of the state and employs 10 part-time student workers in addition to a dozen full-time employees, according to Allis. The school doesnt have a journalism department, so Allis said the station serves as a lab for students. Shuttering the station would be devastating to students who want to get that hands-on training, he added.

What we do for our community, and how we promote our community, and how we effect our community all of that would go away, Allis said.