Trump orders federal financing for NPR and PBS: NPR

President Trump signed an executive order on Thursday, in which the Board of Directors of Corporation for Public Broadcasting was led to “stop federal financing for NPR and PBS”, the primary public broadcasting operator of the country. Trump claims that the reporting of NPR and PBS contains a left prejudices. The congress is acquired by the federal financing for NPR and PBS.

The executive regulation, like many, signed by the President, could be contested in court.

“Which viewpoints promote NPR and PBS does not matter,” says the Executive Ordinance. “What is important that none of the companies represents a fair, accurate or impartial presentation of current events for tax -paying citizens.”

Trump is recently on social media platforms blown -out The two primary public broadcasting networks that are published in all upper limits: “The Republicans have to choose from NPR & PBS and completely disassociate, the radical” monsters “that violate our country so much!”

In the Executive Order, Trump indicates the departments and agencies of the CPB and Executive branch to stop the direct and indirect financing of NPR and PBS.

“The CPB Board of Directors cancel the existing direct financing in the state, which is legally permissible, and rejects it to provide future funds,” the order says.

The President and CEO of NPR, Katherine Maher New interview To Look at all things.

“I think that it is important for public media at a time when various topics and areas of interest are available to be relevant,” she said.

NPR did not immediately answer inquiries about comments on the executive order.

The leaders of NPR and PBS Founded in a hearing of the House Oversight Committee At the end of March about allegations of ideological prejudices on public broadcasting.

Maher was attacked for her earlier political postings on social media and the news judgment of the network was almost exclusively based on tweets and stories that were preceded by the network after years of arrival in March 2024.

Paula Kerger from PBS was asked for a video in which an artist sang a variation of a children's song for a young audience in the drag singing. (Kerger testified that the video on the website of the New York member station of PBS was published and never broadcast on television.)

Federal Finance for Public Media flows through the Congress Scharter for Public Radio. The congress has $ 535 million for the CPB for the current financial year-an amount, which was confirmed in a US house recently controlled by the Republican and the Republican Stop Gap Act.

The CPB budget is largely approved by the congress of the congress in order to isolate it out of political pressure. According to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the Congress fully financed it until September 30, 2027.

During the hearing at the end of March, the head of both networks spoke of the mission to provide the American public without charges of impartial news and programs.

NPR receives about 1% of its financing directly from the federal government and a slightly larger amount indirectly; The 246 member institutions that operate more than 1,300 stations receive an average of 8% to 10% of their funds from CPB.

In contrast, PBS and its stations receive around 15% of their income from the federal funds of CPB.

Most funds for public media go to local stations. And most to subsidize television, which is more expensive than radio.

The networks say that they were repeatedly encouraged by the agency and the congress to develop private financial support, and have worked pleasantly with the FCC for years to ensure that the content falls into the FCC guidelines.

PBS offers a large amount of educational prize; NPR relies more on news and music. Both offer locally grounded content and reach more than 99% of the population free of charge. In many states and municipalities, the stations serve as a key component of emergency and disaster reaction systems.

President Trump opened a new front in his attack on public media on Monday and claimed that he had triggered three of the five board members of the corporation for public broadcasting. The company Trump sued on Tuesday morning In response to the federal law and a judgment of the US Court of Justice, to say that he has no authority to take these measures.

Last month, the White House said that an inquiry to the congress would send the financing of NPR and PBS to withdraw.

In addition, the Federal Communications Commission has initiated an investigation by NPR and PBS in which it seems that its corporate underwriting spots will violate laws that prohibit commercial advertisements.

Disclosure: This story was reported and written by David Folkenflik, correspondent of NPR Media, and published by the deputy business editor Emily Kopp, the managing editor Gerry Holmes and the managing director Vickie Walton-James. As part of the NPR protocol on reporting on itself, no company official or news manager checked this story before it was published publicly.