The non -profit corporation that supervises the national public radio and the public broadcasting service is shooting the executive order of President Donald Trump to obtain funds for the two popular media.
The Corporation for Public Radiodice said that Congress controls its financing, not the president.
“The CPB is not a federal executive agency subject to the president’s authority,” said Patricia Harrison, president and executive director of the CPB, in a statement on Friday. “The Congress authorized and financed CPB directly to be a private non -profit corporation independent of the federal government.”
She continued: “When creating CPB, the Congress expressly prohibited ‘any department, agency, officer or employee of the United States to exercise any address, supervision or control over the educational or radio educational transmission, or more [CPB] or any of its beneficiaries or contractors’ “.
On the way to Florida aboard Air Force One on Thursday, Trump signed an executive order instructing the corporation for public transmission that “ceases direct funds for NPR and PBS.”
The order blocks federal funds to NPR and PBS in the maximum extent allowed by law, according to An informative sheet of the White House. It also prevents indirect financing from PBS and NPR by prohibiting local public radio and television stations, and any other CPB fund receiver, from the use of taxpayers’ dollars to support organizations.
The National Public Radio (NPR) headquarters is seen in Washington, on April 15, 2013.
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The order requires that the CPB review its general provisions of 2025 to explicitly prohibit direct or indirect financing to NPR and PBS. He directs all federal agencies to rescue any direct or indirect financing to NPR and PBS and review existing subsidies and contracts for compliance. In addition, he instructs the Federal Communications Commission and the relevant agencies to investigate whether NPR and PBS have participated in illegal discrimination.
In the informative sheet, the White House affirms that the two news organizations “have fed the partisanship and propaganda of the left with dollars of the taxpayers.”
PBS and NPR bosses testified at a house audience in March on their funds.
“I listen, respect and understand their concerns regarding prejudice and if public media are relevant in a commercial landscape,” said NPR president and executive director, Katherine Maher, at the audience. “It is essential that the NPR writing room operates with the highest journalistic standards. That means that they do their job independently, and as CEO I do not have an editorial role in NPR.”
Minutes later, the president and executive director of PBS, Paula Kerger, added: “The PBS stations focus on the needs and interests of the spectators they attend. Especially in rural areas, PBS stations are the only points of sale that provide coverage for local events, for example, secondary sports, local history and culture content, candidates at each level of the electoral ballots and news specialized agricultural “.
NPR and PBS are mainly financed through a combination of public and private sources. The CPB, a federal agency, provides part of the funds, together with private donations of individuals, foundations and corporations. The CPB Supervisa dozens of media organizations In addition to NPR and PBS, including everything, from American public media to native and public media in Mid-America.
President Donald Trump arrives at Palm Beach International Airport in West Palm Beach, Florida, May 1, 2025.
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Those in the Senate and the camera responded quickly along the party lines.
“The fact that taxpayers are forced to subsidize the propaganda outputs of the extreme left as NPR is an indignation,” Senator Tom Cotton, R-Ark., wrote in x. “I praise President Trump for his order of common sense that ends with taxpayers’ funds for liberal media.
“President Trump is walking us once again towards authoritarianism, eliminating funds for PBS and NPR, claiming that he will stop the coverage of biased and partisan news”, “Adam Smith, D-Wash. wrote in x. “NPR and PBS is how 160 million Americans find their news -based and impartial news every month.”
“These organizations were created under a law of Congress and, therefore, cannot be eliminated in an executive order,” he continued. “We need these programs and we must challenge this court ruling.”
Max Zahn and Lalee Ibssa of ABC News contributed to this report.
