{"id":151,"date":"2025-05-02T18:32:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T18:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tona.today\/?p=151"},"modified":"2025-05-02T18:33:16","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T18:33:16","slug":"president-trump-signs-order-seeking-to-end-federal-funding-for-npr-and-pbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tona.today\/?p=151","title":{"rendered":"President Trump signs order seeking to end federal funding for NPR and PBS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday directing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to end federal funding for America\u2019s two biggest public broadcasters, which have faced a series of attacks from<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>the White House and Republican lawmakers accusing them of biased reporting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The order\u00a0instructs the CPB\u2019s board to terminate direct funding for National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting Service to the \u201cmaximum extent allowed by law and shall decline to provide future funding.\u201d It also orders the board to take steps to \u201cminimize or eliminate\u201d indirect funding to NPR and PBS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Olamide, Wizkid - Kai! 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The corporation is currently suing Trump because the White House tried to terminate three of its board members earlier this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cCPB is not a federal executive agency subject to the President\u2019s authority,\u201d the corporation\u2019s CEO, Patricia Harrison, said in a statement. \u201cCongress directly authorized and funded CPB to be a private nonprofit corporation wholly independent of the federal government.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe President\u2019s blatantly unlawful Executive Order, issued in the middle of the night, threatens our ability to serve the American public with educational programming, as we have for the past 50-plus years,\u201d PBS CEO Paula Kerger said in a statement Friday morning. \u201cWe are currently exploring all options to allow PBS to continue to serve our member stations and all Americans.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Each year, the CPB disperses $535 million in taxpayer funds to public radio and TV stations nationwide and to producers of educational and cultural programming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stations, in turn, provide free and universal access to news, emergency alerts and a wide array of programming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Trump\u2019s first term, his annual budget proposals zeroed out the funding for the corporation, but Congress always allocated the funds anyway \u2013 a reflection of the fact that national Republican opposition to NPR and PBS is countered by local support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Trump\u2019s second term, he is being much more aggressive about trying to shut down the public broadcasters. The White House is alleging that the networks \u201cspread radical, woke propaganda disguised as \u2018news.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PBS and NPR executives reject that, but they recognize that Trump feels emboldened to pursue their federal funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The White House has said it will soon ask Congress to claw back the money already allocated for the corporation over the next two years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThese are funds that we were already counting on,\u201d PBS CEO Paula Kerger said earlier this week, \u201cbecause it\u2019s already appropriated. So we\u2019re anxious to see what they\u2019re talking about and we will be responding very quickly.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>House speaker Mike Johnson said of the expected rescission proposal, \u201cI don\u2019t know what the final outcome is going to be, but I can tell there\u2019s a lot of thoughtful debate about it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump\u2019s executive order is another pursuit of the same goal \u2013 a zeroing out of federal funding for public media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The order also directs Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. 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