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Trump signs executive order directing federal funding cuts to PBS and NPR

Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order aiming to slash public subsidies to PBS and NPR as he alleged “bias” in the broadcasters’ reporting.

The order instructs the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and other federal agencies “to cease Federal funding for NPR and PBS" and further requires that that they work to root out indirect sources of public financing for the news organizations. The White House, in a social media posting announcing the signing, said the outlets “receive millions from taxpayers to spread radical, woke propaganda disguised as 'news.'”

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by Anonymousreply 25May 5, 2025 1:26 AM

That rat bastard.

by Anonymousreply 1May 2, 2025 11:01 AM

He sure has a funny way of "making America great again."

Will the slashed funds now be redirected to Fox and Newsmax?

by Anonymousreply 2May 2, 2025 11:02 AM

Really sad

by Anonymousreply 3May 2, 2025 1:47 PM

Republicans have wanted to kill public broadcasting for decades. Amtrak's next!

by Anonymousreply 4May 2, 2025 1:56 PM

Public broadcasting gets very little of its funding from the federal government.

by Anonymousreply 5May 2, 2025 2:29 PM

Trump needs to be removed from office. UNFIT.

by Anonymousreply 6May 2, 2025 2:58 PM

It's not a beautiful day in the neighborhood.

by Anonymousreply 7May 2, 2025 3:02 PM

I wish someone would get Trump so volcanically apoplectic that he stokes out and we can be delivered from this daily nightmare.

by Anonymousreply 8May 2, 2025 3:09 PM

[quote] Public broadcasting gets very little of its funding from the federal government.

It's bad enough that PBS and NPR get little federal funding, but it was made clear in the article that Trump is also going after their OTHER FUNDING SOURCES.

[italic]The order instructs the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and other federal agencies “to cease Federal funding for NPR and PBS" and further requires that that they work to [bold]root out indirect sources of public financing[/bold] for the news organizations.[/italic]

He doesn't just want to cut off their federal money. He wants to cut off ALL their money.

by Anonymousreply 9May 2, 2025 3:45 PM

[quote] He doesn't just want to cut off their federal money. He wants to cut off ALL their money.

"He" is a demented, senile old buffoon.

"They" are the unelected racist, classist, angry oppressors who have been gunning for this for a generation and finally found a useful idiot willing to make it happen.

by Anonymousreply 10May 2, 2025 3:51 PM

He never got over Sesame Street's Donald Grump muppet. Seriously

by Anonymousreply 11May 2, 2025 3:52 PM

priorities

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by Anonymousreply 12May 2, 2025 6:07 PM

[quote] PBS President Says Trump’s Executive Order to End Funding Is “Blatantly Unlawful”

Paula Kerger is not taking these Trump cuts to PBS and NPR funding lying down. As a matter of fact, it sounds like she may take them into a court room.

In a statement shared with The Hollywood Reporter on Friday, Kerger, the president and CEO of PBS, called Trump’s latest executive order “blatantly unlawful,” said it “threatens our ability to serve the American public with educational programming, as we have for the past 50-plus years.”

Kerger also took a pretty good shot at how — and when — Trump put this into motion.

“The President’s blatantly unlawful Executive Order, issued in the middle of the night, threatens our ability to serve the American public with educational programming, as we have for the past 50-plus years,” Kerger’s full statement reads. “We are currently exploring all options to allow PBS to continue to serve our member stations and all Americans.”

Kerger is not alone here. Patricia Harrison, the president and CEO of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), also says Trump has no actual say in the funding.

“CPB is not a federal executive agency subject to the President’s authority,” Harrison said in a separate statement on Friday. “Congress directly authorized and funded CPB to be a private nonprofit corporation wholly independent of the federal government.”

“In creating CPB, Congress expressly forbade ‘any department, agency, officer, or employee of the United States to exercise any direction, supervision, or control over educational television or radio broadcasting, or over [CPB] or any of its grantees or contractors,” Harrison continued.

In his executive order signed late Thursday night, Trump said the government’s funding of news media is “outdated and unnecessary,” as well as “corrosive to the appearance of journalistic independence.”

Neither PBS and NPR “neither entity “presents a fair, accurate or unbiased portrayal of current events to taxpaying citizens,” the White House continued. “The CPB Board shall cancel existing direct funding to the maximum extent allowed by law and shall decline to provide future funding.”

Per a fact sheet provided to THR by PBS, public broadcasting costs about $1.60 per person, per year. The fact sheet stated that more than 70 percent of the received funding goes directly to public TV and radio stations.

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by Anonymousreply 13May 2, 2025 6:19 PM

Related:

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by Anonymousreply 14May 2, 2025 6:31 PM

Fuck him.

Just fuck him. And the stupid assholes who deify him. And the sharpie he signed the executive order with.

Here's hoping the courts continue to block this bullshit, like the other bullshit he's been trying to do.

by Anonymousreply 15May 2, 2025 6:59 PM

Yep, more silencing of the media.

by Anonymousreply 16May 2, 2025 7:04 PM

What the fuck r14? We're already taught to be so rah rah America that History class stops after WW2

by Anonymousreply 17May 2, 2025 7:09 PM

On the upside, there will be less vocal fry and Up-speak on the airwaves.

by Anonymousreply 18May 2, 2025 7:10 PM

You'll still miss it once its gone, R18.

by Anonymousreply 19May 2, 2025 7:19 PM

[quote]Stephen Miller: "Children will be taught to love America. Children will be taught to be patriots.

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by Anonymousreply 20May 2, 2025 7:26 PM

Haven't tuned in for 3 years. Haven't missed it, frankly.

by Anonymousreply 21May 2, 2025 7:39 PM

Once an asshole, always an asshole

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by Anonymousreply 22May 3, 2025 1:20 AM

I miss early 2000s era NPR. I listened 24/7

by Anonymousreply 23May 3, 2025 1:24 AM

The sisters at Nonnatus House will NOT be pleased! They can’t take away my Trixie and Call The Midwife!

by Anonymousreply 24May 3, 2025 1:39 AM

Dear NPR-----was HE worth it? Why didn't you ask him about the tampons? Or playing with dolls? Or the AIDs makeover? Why didn't the "trans activist" even show up for the Supreme Court hearing? Fuck you. Enjoy your budget cuts. Drop the TEE.

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by Anonymousreply 25May 5, 2025 1:26 AM
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