Doge tried to embed itself with the company

Less than one day after President Trump tried to dismiss three members of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting Board last month, Doge's employees also tried to assign a team to review his operations.

The CPB heads and government heads submitted this application, citing the federal law, which sets the independent non -profit organization outside the federal government's control. The proposal comes that the president starts a broad attack against the two largest public broadcasters in the country. At the same time, the informal Department of Government Efficiency has tried to embed itself with numerous independent agencies that Trump wants to close.

These revelations come into question in court documents, which were submitted in a lawsuit on Friday, in which CPB questions Trump's efforts of April 28 to remove the board members, and after the president issued an executive regulation on May 1st, in which the end of federal funding for public broadcasting and national public radios is also terminated.

According to the submission, Nate Cavanaugh, an employee of the General Services Administration, sent an e -mail to the two board members who were not addressed by Trump, a meeting shortly before the first court hearing in the CPB case.

“I would like to find out more about the public broadcasting company and discuss that a Doge team is assigned to the organization,” wrote Cavanaugh in an e -mail from April 29.

An answer on April 30 by CPBS Executive Vice President and General Counsel Evan Slavitt repeated the organization's attitude that the federal law states that CPB “will not be an agency or establishment of the United States”.

“Accordingly, neither Doga, the GSA nor another component of the executive have a role that has monitoring or activity in connection with CPB,” wrote Slavitt.

Slavitt also said that the Doge -E email was sent to two E -Mail addresses that are only used by CPB costs for reimbursement of reimbursement and are not the way to contact the board members.

The Trump government claims that the constitution gives the president “the authority to remove personnel who carry out his executive authority,” spokesman for the White House, Taylor Rogers, previously to NPR.

The law seems to say something else.

The Federal Law is expressly in terms of structure and independence from CPB

In a section of the 1967 public broadcasting law, the statute does not allow a department, agency, representative or employee of the United States to exercise instructions, surveillance or control over public telecommunications or one or one of its scholarships or contractual partners. “

After Trump had issued his executive regulation, which claimed to end CPBs to the end of the Federal Finance to the PBS and NPR, the leaders of the three organizations said that the guideline was also illegal, with reference to a section of the law, in which CPB was stipulated in a way, “to ensure maximum protection against foreign interventions and control”.

The law also states that funds assigned by Congress and distributed by CPB “can be used at the discretion of the recipient” and explains how much percent of the funds for public television can be used at local and national level.

The Congress provided CPB 535 million US dollars for the current financial year, a number that remained unchanged in the latest Stopgap edition plan, for which everyone had voted up to two Republican legislators in March. The President has given the interest of asking the congress to push this financing back with a process as a resignation, although this request was not made and the approval is not guaranteed.

The executive regulation also indicates federal authorities to end any “direct or indirect” financing of NPR and PBS. Last week the Ministry of Education announced CPB, in which it ended the “Ready to Learning” schedule for educational television programs.

When CPB asked the court to block Trump's removal of board members, he would not have a quorum to run business if the shots on a previously planned session for Tuesday, May 13th would indicate the discussion of legislative communication plans with the congress, outstanding and potential legal disputes and the approval of Grant Awards.

“Without a legally constituted administrative rate, there can be no authorization or instructions,” says the registration.

And although CPB says that it is not subject to the authority of the president, it is worth noting that the board without Quorum would not be able to issue Trump's executive order that is supposed to try to remove PBS and NPR.

The next hearing in this case is planned for May 14th.

Disclosure: This story was reported and written by the NPR reporter Stephen Fowler and published by Padmananda Rama, Emily Kopp, Vickie Walton-James and Gerry Holmes. As part of the NPR protocol on reporting on itself, no company official or news manager checked this story before it was published publicly.

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