NPR and PBS promise to combat Trump's command, reduce the financing

Removing President Trump's Executive Order, NPR and PBS was made with fiery setbacks on Friday when the organizations questioned the legality of the move and said that this could endanger access to important information.

In the order issued late Thursday, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting was instructed, which receives and distributed more than 500 million US dollars in tax money on public television and radio station every year in order to avoid millions of dollars of federal financing to the two public media organizations. It is perhaps the most important threat to weaken in a decades -long campaign by the Republicans, NPR and PBS.

Patricia Harrison, the managing director of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a private company, said in a statement that the White House had no legal authority about the company. NPR has sworn to challenge the order and describe it as the “Affront to the first change”.

Paula Kerger, the managing director of PBS, also illegally referred to Mr. Trump's executive regulation. “The president's obvious executive regulation, which was issued in the middle of the night, threatens our ability to serve the American public with educational programs, as we have done in the past 50 years,” said Ms. Kerger.

Mr. Trump and other Republicans have long argued that NPR and PBS have a liberal prejudices and that taxpayers should not finance their journalism. The executive order used the same argument and accused the news agencies of producing “left -wing propaganda”.

Mr. Trump's executive order was the fourth efforts of the Republicans to weaken public media in just as many months: a draft law works through the congress to remove NPR and PBS. The White House asked the Congress on Friday to reduce federal financing for the public broadcasting company. And this week Mr. Trump tried to release three directors of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a step that was delayed by the dishes.