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Friday, May 02, 2025

President Trump issued an executive order late Thursday directing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting's board of directors to "cease federal funding for NPR and PBS," the nation's primary public broadcasters, claiming ideological bias.

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It is not clear that the president has the authority to make such orders to CPB under the law. From @davidfolkenflik.bsky.social

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-- NPR (@npr.org) May 2, 2025 at 12:35 PM

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"It is not clear that the president has the authority to make such orders to CPB under the law.

PBS President and CEO Paula Kerger called it a "blatantly unlawful Executive Order, issued in the middle of the night."

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"CPB is not a federal executive agency subject to the President's authority," the corporation wrote in a statement issued Friday morning. "Congress directly authorized and funded CPB to be a private nonprofit corporation wholly independent of the federal government."

The CPB noted that the statute Congress passed to create it "expressly forbade 'any department, agency, officer, or employee of the United States to exercise any direction, supervision, or control over educational television or radio broadcasting, or over [CPB] or any of its grantees or contractors."

Congress said that recipients of such funds "may be used at the discretion of the recipient" for producing or acquiring programs to put on the air."

First they came for Public Broadcasting....

#1 | Posted by Corky at 2025-05-02 12:16 PM | Reply

They do have a bias, towards truth and knowledge. So of course King Dotard XIV would hate them. If he watched more PBS maybe he'd actually know what the Declaration of Independence was.

#2 | Posted by TFDNihilist at 2025-05-02 12:55 PM | Reply

Our tax dollars should not go to them unless they stop leaning left and go politically neutral.

#3 | Posted by MSgt at 2025-05-02 03:04 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

On principle, I agree. However pretty sure these were created by congress. A much better approach would be to replace their staff with right-wing ideological hacks and let the Democrats go from there.

#4 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-05-03 12:35 AM | Reply

Our tax dollars should not go to them unless they stop leaning left and go politically neutral.

#3 | Posted by MSgt

They don't lean either way.

Just news and facts. Nowadays, you right wingers consider truth and facts "left leaning."

#5 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2025-05-03 01:29 AM | Reply

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