The non -profit company which oversees national public radio and the public broadcasting service reproduce on the executive order of President Donald Trump to finance the two popular media.
The public dissemination company stressed that the congress controls its funding, not the president.
“CPB is not a federal executive agency subject to the president’s authority,” Patricia Harrison, president and chief executive officer on Friday. “The congress directly authorized and financed the CPB as a private non -profit company entirely independent of the federal government.”
She continued: “By creating CPB, the Congress expressly prohibits” any department, agency, officer or employee of the United States to exercise any direction, supervision or control over educational television or radio [CPB] or one of its beneficiaries or entrepreneurs. ‘”
Asset Signed the decree Instruct the public broadcasting company to “stop direct funding towards NPR and PBS” on the way to Florida on board the Air Force One Thursday
The order blocks federal funding at NPR and PBS to the maximum extent authorized by law, according to An information sheet of the White House. It also prevents indirect funding from PBS and NPR by prohibiting local public radio and television stations, and any other CPB fund recipient, using taxpayers to support organizations.
The headquarters of national public radio (NPR) is visible in Washington, April 15, 2013.
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The order requires that the CPB revises its general provisions in 2025 to explicitly prohibit direct or indirect financing at NPR and PBS. He orders all federal agencies to terminate any direct or indirect funding at NPR and PBS and to review the subsidies and existing contracts for compliance. In addition, he asked the Federal Commission Commission and the agencies concerned to investigate the question of whether NPR and PBS have initiated illegal discrimination.
In the information sheet, the White House affirms that the two press organizations “fueled the left -wing partisanry and propaganda with the dollars of taxpayers”.
In an interview with ABC News on Friday, the president and chief executive officer of PBS, Paula Kerger, said that a loss of federal funding was going to hit the public in rural communities. Kerger said that their access to stations historically depended on the government’s financing and that the content of children’s programming to safeguard emergency alerts could be negatively affected by the cuts.
“They trained PBS as a way to bring the dollars closer to the whole country from all our stations,” said Kerger. “It would help us create the content of children that people have loved for many decades and that have really raised generations of children.”
For some stations, the situation could be disastrous, she said.
“For a number of smaller stations, it could really be an existential challenge,” said Kerger. “This means the existence of these same stations.”
Kerger and the NPR chief testified during a house audience in March on their funding.
“I hear, respect and understand your concerns about biases and if the public media are relevant in a commercial landscape,” said the president and chief executive officer Katherine Maher, during the hearing. “It is essential for the NPR editorial room to operate with the highest journalistic standards. This means that they do their work independently, and as CEO, I have no editorial role at NPR.”
NPR and PBS are mainly funded by a combination of public and private sources. The CPB, a federal agency, provides part of the funding, as well as private donations from individuals, foundations and companies. The CPB supervises dozens of media organizations In addition to NPR and PBS, including everything, from American public media to native public media and public media in the midst of America.
President Donald Trump arrives at Palm Beach International Airport in West Palm Beach, Florida, May 1, 2025.
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Those of the Senate and the Chamber quickly responded according to the party’s parts.
“The fact that taxpayers are forced to subsidize the far-left propaganda points like NPR is an outrage,” said senator Tom Cotton, R-Ark., Written on x. “I congratulate President Trump for his common sense order ending taxpayers for the liberal media.
“President Trump guides us once again to authoritarianism, eliminating the funds for PBS and NPR, saying that this will stop the coverage of biased and partisan information”, “the representative Adam Smith, D-Wash., Written on x. “NPR and PBS explain how 160 million Americans have their new impartials based on facts each month.”
“These organizations were created under an act of Congress and therefore cannot be eliminated in a decree,” he continued. “We need these programs and must contest this decision before the courts.”
Max Zahn, Lalee Ibssa and Docquan Louallen from ABC News to this report.
