Trump orders end to federal funding for NPR and PBS

[Dulcinea]

(NPR) President Trump signed an executive order Thursday directing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting's board of directors to "cease federal funding for NPR and PBS," the nation's primary public broadcasters. Trump contends that news coverage by NPR and PBS contains a left-wing bias. The federal funding for NPR and PBS is appropriated by Congress.

The executive order, like many that have been signed by the president, could be challenged in court.

"Which viewpoints NPR and PBS promote does not matter," the executive order says. "What does matter is that neither entity presents a fair, accurate or unbiased portrayal of current events to tax-paying citizens."

On social media platforms, Trump recently blasted the two primary public broadcasting networks, posting in all caps: "REPUBLICANS MUST DEFUND AND TOTALLY DISASSOCIATE THEMSELVES FROM NPR & PBS, THE RADICAL LEFT 'MONSTERS' THAT SO BADLY HURT OUR COUNTRY!"

https://www.npr.org/2025/05/02/nx-s1-5384790/trump-orders-end-to-federal-funding-for-npr-and-pbs

[Turbineguy]

1. Congress does that stuff.

That's their job.

[bucolic_frolic]

2. Newt's Dream come to life

Who could have guessed?

[Scrivener7]

3. That's not how it works. He doesn't decide this. Why is that not more clearly said than, "this could be challenged"?

Why is the reporting of this nonsense not accompanied by, "This demonstrates a clear ignorance about the basic civic workings of the United States"?

[marybourg]

4. So all these years of normalizing tRump did them

absolutely no good at all. Talking about you, Judy Woodruff.