Trump orders end in federal financing for NPR and PBS: NPR

President Trump signed an executive order on Thursday in which the corporation was dedicated to the Board of Public Broadcasting to strike “federal financing for NPR and PBS”, the primary public broadcasters of the country. Trump claims that NPR and PBS’s reporting contains a left -wing bias. The federal financing for NPR and PBS is allocated by the congress.

The executive order could, like many signed by the president, could be challenged before the court.

“Promoting those views NPR and PBS does not matter,” says the executive order. “What is important is that neither entity presents a fair, accurate or unbiased representation of current events to tax -paying citizens.”

On platforms on social media, Trump recently blasted The two primary public broadcasting networks, which posts in all caps: “Republicans have to out and completely unload from NPR & PBS, the radical links ‘samples’ that hurt our country so badly!”

In the executive order, Trump instructs the CPB and executive branches and agencies to stop direct and indirect financing of NPR and PBS.

“The CPB Council will cancel the existing direct financing to that extent permitted and refuses to provide future financing,” says the order.

NPR’s President and CEO Katherine Maher defended the coverage and discussed the need for financing in one Recent interview on All together taken.

“I think it is important that public media can remain relevant at a time when there is a lot of coverage about different issues and areas of interest,” she said.

NPR did not immediately respond to requests for comments on the implementation order.

The leaders of NPR and PBS testified during a hearing of a house oversight committee At the end of March about accusations of ideological bias in public broadcasts.

Maher was attacked because of her earlier political messages on social media and the news judgment of the network almost entirely based on tweets and stories that were arranging her arrival in March 2024 in the network compared to years.

PSLA Kerger from PBS was about a video with a performer in Drag who sang a variation on a children’s song for a young audience. (Kerger testified that the video on the PBS’s New York City Station website was placed on the website and was never broadcast on television.)

Federal financing for public media flows through the Congressional Chartered Corporation for Public Broadcasting. The congress has assigned $ 535 million for the CPB for the current tax annual annual amount that has been confirmed in a recent stop-gap bill adopted by the Republican-controlled American house and Senate.

The budget of the CPB has been approved by the congress on a large part of two years to isolate the political pressure; According to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the congress has financed it completely until September 30, 2027.

During the hearing at the end of March, the heads of both networks spoke about the mission to offer non -party -bound news and program it to the American public, without charging.

NPR receives approximately 1% of its financing directly from the federal government and a slightly larger amount indirectly; The 246 member institutions, which have more than 1,300 stations, receive an average of 8% to 10% of their funds from CPB.

PBS and its stations, on the other hand, receive approximately 15% of their income from the Federal Funds of CPB.

Most funds for public media go to local stations; And most to subsidize television, which is more expensive than radio.

The networks say that they are repeatedly encouraged by the agency and the congress to develop private financial support and have worked with the FCC for years to ensure that its content falls within FCC guidelines.

PBS offers a heavy amount of educational dishes; NPR relies more on news and music. Both offer locally grounded content and reach more than 99% of the population without costs. And in many states and communities, stations serve as an important part of emergency and disaster response systems.

President Trump opened a new front in his attack on public media on Monday and claimed that he removed three of the five board members of the Corporation for Public Omroep. The company Trump charged on Tuesday morning In response, pointing to federal law and a statement by the American Supreme Court to claim that he does not have the power to take these actions.

Last month the White House said that it would send a request to the congress for a dissolution of financing for NPR and PBS.

Moreover, the Federal Communications Commission has started a study by NPR and PBS, and says it seems that their business insurance places violate laws that prohibit commercial advertisements.

Publication: This story was reported and written by NPR media correspondent David Folkenflik and edited by deputy company editor Emily Kopp, editor Gerry Holmes and editor-in-chief Vickie Walton-James. According to the NPR protocol for reporting on himself, no business officer or news director has assessed this story before it was publicly posted.