"Trump pretends to defund public media with meaningless order."
Donald Trump issued an executive order on Thursday night that seeks to eliminate federal funding for NPR and PBS, the latter of which airs widely admired educational programming like “Sesame Street.”
Trump’s order, titled “Ending Taxpayer Subsidization of Biased Media,” instru…
"Trump pretends to defund public media with meaningless order."
Donald Trump issued an executive order on Thursday night that seeks to eliminate federal funding for NPR and PBS, the latter of which airs widely admired educational programming like “Sesame Street.”
Trump’s order, titled “Ending Taxpayer Subsidization of Biased Media,” instructs the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to “cease Federal funding for NPR and PBS.” Trump’s justification for the order is that NPR and PBS have purportedly failed to provide the public with unbiased, fair, and nonpartisan news coverage.
The effect of Trump’s order is unclear at the moment.
“CPB is not a federal executive agency subject to the President’s authority,” Patricia Harrison, the president and chief executive of CPB, said in a Friday statement. “Congress directly authorized and funded CPB to be a private nonprofit corporation wholly independent of the federal government.” (Continued)
"Trump pretends to defund public media with meaningless order."
Donald Trump issued an executive order on Thursday night that seeks to eliminate federal funding for NPR and PBS, the latter of which airs widely admired educational programming like “Sesame Street.”
Trump’s order, titled “Ending Taxpayer Subsidization of Biased Media,” instructs the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to “cease Federal funding for NPR and PBS.” Trump’s justification for the order is that NPR and PBS have purportedly failed to provide the public with unbiased, fair, and nonpartisan news coverage.
The effect of Trump’s order is unclear at the moment.
“CPB is not a federal executive agency subject to the President’s authority,” Patricia Harrison, the president and chief executive of CPB, said in a Friday statement. “Congress directly authorized and funded CPB to be a private nonprofit corporation wholly independent of the federal government.” (Continued)
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