Big Bird (L) and other Sesame Street puppet charactors pose next to temporarty street sign November 9, 2009 at West 64th Street and Broadway in New York on the eve of the 40th anniversary of the ...

The vote was 214-212. “House Republicans just killed Big Bird and shut down Sesame Street,” said Connecticut U.S. Rep. John Larson, D-1.

This brought him to the topic of Sesame Street: “A few weeks back, Donald Trump signed an executive order canceling all government funding for PBS, and as a result, ‘Sesame Street’ laid off ...