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Posted on 05/02/2025 2:41:16 AM PDT by Beowulf9
WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump signs executive order aimed at cutting federal subsidies for PBS and NPR, alleging 'bias.'
May 2 (UPI) -- President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to halt federal funding to PBS and NPR, calling the public news organizations "biased."
Trump, who has long criticized the two news organizations for alleged bias, signed the executive order Thursday, directing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to cease direct funding to NPR and PBS to the maximum extent allowed by law.
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UPI has contacted both NPR and PBS for comment.
More than 70% of CPB's congressionally approved $535 million budget goes directly to public media stations through grants.
According to NPR, about 1% of its annual operating budget comes in the form of grants from CPB and federal agencies and departments, excluding CPB funding for the Public Radio Satellite System.
According to PBS, federal funding covers about 15% of its revenue.
The White House on social media said they receive "millions from taxpayers."
Trump signed the executive order just two days after CPB sued the Trump administration over its attempt to remove three of its board members.
In the lawsuit, CPB argues that it is not a federal agency but a private corporation and therefore is not subject to the president's authority.
It also comes amid a GOP push to strip the two organizations of federal funds, and roughly two weeks after the White House issued a statement that amounted to a list of articles from NPR and PBS that the Trump administration took exception too, and framed as spreading "radical, woke propaganda disguised as 'news.'"
On his Truth Social media platform early last month, Trump urged Republicans to abandon both PBS and NPR.
"REPUBLICANS MUST DEFUND AND TOTALLY DISASSOCIATE THEMSELVES FROM NPR & PBS, THE RADICAL LEFT 'MONSTERS' THAT SO BADLY HURT OUR COUNTRY!" he said.
CPB was founded in 1967 as a private nonprofit corporation to fund public television and radio stations and their programs.
A recent Pew study conducted in March found that 43% of respondents said NPR and PBS should continue to receive federal funding compared to 24% that said Congress should stop allocating the two news organizations money.The remaining 33% of respondents said they weren't sure.
Did he get permission from a federal Judge 1st?
😆
Time for the ACLU to speed dial their black robed buffoons. Or does the ACLU only do deportations?
Detroit’s NPR, WDET 101.9 FM, has been a favorite of mine since the early-to-mid 80’s. Compared to just about all of the ordinary FM rock and roll stations we have around here nowadays, WDET has been a kind of musical sanctuary for listeners to fall back on and perhaps (re)discover some great material we either forgot about or stuff we never even knew existed. For that alone, if it went off the air tomorrow I’d really miss it...And whatever happened to “Dr. Science”? He was always good for a laugh.
Are we still paying newsrooms and media flubucks?
if so,,,we can stop that now...
(President Trump signs an executive order cutting off taxpayer funding for NPR and PBS.)
Excellent 👍👍👍
Let the Leftist Lamentations begin
Every day is Christmas!
I’ve been calling for this for 30 years.
HOORAY President Trump!!!
YAY! I love him so much!
Democrats can support their own radio and TV stations - that's NOT the job for 'all of us'.
But with money being fungible, such stations, I’d imagine, could simply direct other funding to the news organizations.
For all my years of attempts to find classical music on FM radio, it has only been on NPR, radio begging notwithstanding. All the rest of the broadcast s have been leftist in nature.
Bias is an understatement. They are outright propaganda outlets promoting global socialism and Chinese Communism as “the way”.
Polls aren't used today to gather information but to mold public opinion.... nobody wants to be part of the minority of opinion..... no moral backbone...cause it's embarrassing, doncha know?
Hooray!!
OH NO!!! Where on earth will we get to listen to All Leftist Things Considered?!?!
Well, other than ... ABC, NBC, See BS, CNN, (P)MSNBC, etc. etc.
They don’t have to go off the air; they just lose the Fed funding.
“For all my years of attempts to find classical music on FM radio, it has only been on NPR, radio begging notwithstanding.”
Same here... KNAU. But everything other than the music is socialist brainwashing right in line with NAUs own agenda and it ruins the enjoyment of the music for me. It is extortion, they hook us with the music so they can pump us with socialist propaganda during the breaks from the music.
Federal judge from Hawaii blocks the executive order. In his decision, he states, “I want my Britcoms!”
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