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Trump Sued By PBS To Stop $500M Funding Cut

The war between POTUS & public broadcasting in America just saw the former home of Big Bird open up a whole new legal front

“A recent survey of a politically representative sample of U.S. adults (conducted by YouGov) showed that PBS is the number one most trusted institution in the United States, as compared to video streaming services, commercial cable television, news publications, commercial broadcast television, the federal government, Congress, courts of law, and social media platforms,” today’s generally understated complaint asserts. “Regardless of any policy disagreements over the role of public television, our Constitution and laws forbid the President from serving as the arbiter of the content of PBS’s programming, including by attempting to defund PBS,” reads the 51-page complaint filed by DC law firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld to hit home with its point Just like the NPR complaint, the PBS action named Trump, Russell Vought, director of the Office of Management and Budget; Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent.

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