National Public Radio (NPR) announced Tuesday that it is suing President Donald Trump over a recent executive order that cuts
National Public Radio (NPR) announced Tuesday that it is suing President Donald Trump over a recent executive order that cuts its federal funding through the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB).
NPR and other radio stations claim that Trump’s May 1 executive order cutting federal funds to both NPR and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is unconstitutional, and that it violates the First Amendment’s protection of free speech. Trump’s executive order maintains that NPR and PBS are biased news companies that taxpayers have no duty to fund.
Trump’s May 1 executive order, Ending Taxpayer Subsidization of Biased Media, says that “No media outlet has a constitutional right to taxpayer subsidies,” and that “Government funding of news media in this environment is not only outdated and unnecessary but corrosive to the appearance of journalistic independence.
