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Trump White House Seeks to Cease Federal Funding to PBS, NPR With New Executive Order
The Trump White House has ordered that all federal funding of PBS and NPR be blocked under the argument they are "biased."
The order instructs the board of the Corporation of Public Broadcasting “cease direct funding to NPR and PBS” to the “maximum extent allowed by law.” The CPB distributes funds to local public radio and TV stations, which in turn pay license fees to air NPR and PBS programming. The lawsuit argued that the CPB was created as an independent agency in order to insulate it from politics, and that board members are not federal officials subject to removal or control by the president.
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