President Trump orders Corporation for Public Broadcasting to end federal funding for NPR and PBS
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President Trump orders Corporation for Public Broadcasting to end federal funding for NPR and PBS
By Clay Voytek, CNN
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Updated 2:31 AM EDT, Fri May 2, 2025
US President Donald Trump, center, displays a signed executive order at the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on May 1, 2025. Yuri Gripas/Abaca/Bloomberg/Getty Images
(CNN) — President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday directing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to end federal funding for America’s two biggest public broadcasters, which have faced a series of attacks from the White House and Republican lawmakers accusing them of biased reporting.
The order instructs the CPB’s board to terminate direct funding for National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting Service to the “maximum extent allowed by law and shall decline to provide future funding.” It also orders the board to take steps to “minimize or eliminate” indirect funding to NPR and PBS.
The executive order also directs Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to investigate NPR and PBS for possible employment discrimination, and it instructs the heads of all other federal agencies to “identify and terminate” any direct or indirect funding of the media organizations, as allowed by the law. … The order follows previous attacks on the public broadcasters by the Trump administration and prominent Republicans.
Each year, the CPB disperses $535 million in taxpayer funds to public radio and TV stations nationwide, stations provide free and universal access to educational shows, emergency alerts and a wide array of news and cultural content.
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Just not dedicated to the Democratic Party, per se.
(Let me take this opportunity to say that Democratic is the name of the political party -- as in the Democratic Party.
The members are called Democrats as in "What an opportunity for DEMOCRATS to have our own tv and radio channel." )
The Meidas Network, The Thom Hartmann Report, The Guardian America, Wired, and Techdirt are all consistent democratic news sources for Democrats.
So is MSNBC at night. At this point one can even call NPR and PBS democratic news sources, or the felon wouldn't have issued an anti-press E.O.
"It also orders the board to take steps to “minimize or eliminate” indirect funding to NPR and PBS." They can't cut off donations though, right? Right?
This guy has definitely expanded my vocabulary.
With every single dictatorial edict he signs, he holds it up for everyone to see, like he's so proud he can write his own name. 
What a tool.
Penny wise and pound foolish, as the saying goes. The money "saved" by driving a stake into the heart of public broadcasting doesn't amount to a hill of beans.
This shit must stop. 
