On Thursday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to reduce public subsidies to PBS and NPR, where he claimed “bias” in broadcaster reports.
The matter guides the public radio company and other federal agencies, “stopping federal funding for NPR and PBS” and also requires that they eradicate the indirect public financing sources for news institutions. The White House said, in publishing the social media that announces the signing, that the outlets “receive millions of taxpayers to spread extremist propaganda, which woke up as” news “.
It is the latest step by Trump and his administration to use federal powers to control the installations of the knee strings that are not agreed with. Since he took office, Trump overthrew leaders, and the employees put on an administrative leave and cut hundreds of millions of dollars from financing for artists, libraries, museums, theaters, etc., through acquisition onJohn Kennedy Center for Dramatic ArtsAnd the national gift of human science. It also prompted Trump to block federal research and education funds from universities and punish law firms unless they agreed to eliminate diversity programs and other measures that Trump found rejected.
BroadcastersGet nearly half a billion dollarsIn public funds through the Public Broadcasting Corporation, and it was preparing for the possibility of harsh cuts since Trump was elected, and the Republicans have long complained.
POLA Cyrger, CEO of PBS and its president, said in a statement last month that the Trump administration’s efforts to cancel public media financing will lead to “disrupting the basic PBS service and local member stations provided by the American people.”
“There is nothing more American than PBS, and our work is only possible because of the partisan support we have always received from Congress,” she said. “This partnership between the public and private sectors allows us to help prepare millions of children for success in school and in life and also supports inspiring enrichment and programs of the highest levels of quality.”
The Public Broadcasting Corporation filed a lawsuit against Trump earlier this week because of his transfer to the launch of three members of its five -person board of directors, claiming that the president was beyond his authority and that the move would prohibit the quorum council necessary for work.
Just two weeks ago, the White House said it would ask Congress to cancel CPB financing as part of the $ 9.1 billion discount packages. However, this package, which said Russell Fior, the budget director, is likely to be the first of several, has not yet been sent to the Capitol Hill.
This step comes against PBS and NPR, as its administration dismantles the US Agency for World Media, including Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, which is designed to model independent news worldwide in societies that restrict the press. These efforts faced a retreat from the federal courts, which in some cases destroyed that the Trump administration may have exceeded its authority to curb the money that was allocated to the outlets by Congress.
This story was originally shown on Fortune.com
