• In mid‑2025, federal support for public broadcasting was effectively eliminated: the Rescissions Act of 2025 rescinded $1.1 billion in funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), the main federal funding conduit for NPR and PBS, and was signed into law on July 24, 2025. (en.wikipedia.org) CPB then announced it would wind down and shut its doors because its federal budget had been zeroed out. (arstechnica.com) This satisfies the prediction’s condition that U.S. government funding for NPR be (for all practical purposes) eliminated.

• Despite that loss of federal funding, NPR has continued to operate as a national news organization. Coverage asking whether NPR would “go away” after CPB’s shutdown explicitly concludes that NPR “will still continue to operate,” while warning that the real damage will fall on smaller and rural member stations. (forbes.com) NPR’s CEO Katherine Maher similarly frames the crisis as forcing budget cuts and restructuring, not closure of NPR itself. (washingtonpost.com)

• Post‑cut reporting emphasizes that NPR and PBS are responding by ramping up private funding mechanisms—member donations, pledge drives, and other non‑government support—to compensate for the loss of CPB money. (forbes.com) That is precisely the dynamic the prediction described (subscriptions/donations sustaining the organization rather than it shutting down).

Given that (1) federal public‑media appropriations have been effectively removed and CPB is shutting down, yet (2) NPR has not “gone away” and is instead trying to sustain itself through private revenue and intensified fundraising, the prediction that NPR would continue to operate even if U.S. government funding were eliminated has, so far, proven right.