The White House is starting to eliminate funding for the media

The story of two firefights between the U.S. Institute of Peace and the New York Public Broadcasting Network (NPR)

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Earlier this month, on social media platforms, Trump blasted the two primary public broadcasting networks, posting in all caps: “REPUBLICANS MUST DEFUND AND TOTALLY DISASSOCIATE THEMSELVES FROM NPR & PBS, THE RADICAL LEFT ‘MONSTERS’ THAT SO BADLY HURT OUR COUNTRY!”

Fired USIP employees are now suing the Trump administration. The planned lease of USIP headquarters to the U.S. Labor Department was said in court by a Justice Department attorney. The judge overseeing the case has, to date, declined to issue a temporary restraining order to stop the transfer of assets to the government, although she said the administration has adopted a “bull in a china shop” approach.

Even so, the White House has succeeded in previously unimaginable ways; representatives of Trump’s budget-slashing DOGE initiative, aided by Washington, D.C. police officers, forced their way into the U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP) so that the administration could take it over. The Institute is a nonprofit funded by Congress.

PBS, NewsHour, and the FCC: Reports on the Center for Public Radio and Broadcasting in the U.S.

The lawsuits argue that Trump has far exceeded his authority, trampling on due process, and diminishing free speech rights.

In New York a judge has made a temporary stop to Lake’s attempts to shut down Voice of America. In Washington, D.C., another judge ruled the government had to keep sending funds that Congress already had committed to Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.

The agency and Congress have encouraged the networks to develop a greater share of private financial support. They have worked assiduously for years with the FCC to ensure that their spots fall within FCC guidelines. The news organizations supported by the U.S. government are now under scrutiny by the Trump administration.

KELLY. So we have, of course, been tracking pieces of this story for weeks now. We covered the FCC launching an investigation into NPR and PBS underwriting practices. We covered last month’s testimony by the leaders of NPR and PBS before a House subcommittee. Walk me through this latest development. This is the White House asking Congress to eliminate funding. Explain.

A recent Pew Research Center poll found that 43% of U.S. adults surveyed favored continued federal support for NPR and PBS, with 24% saying it should be cut. However, by political affiliation, the results were more stark, with 44% of Republicans favoring an end to federal funding of the public broadcasters, while 69% of Democrats said it should continue.

“Without PBS, without NPR, you wouldn’t hear stories — news stories, public affairs stories, community stories — from Alaska,” Alaska Public Media CEO and President Ed Ulman said. “You wouldn’t see them on the PBS NewsHour. This is vital. It’s vital for Alaskans to know that they’re connected to their nation, and that what we do in Alaska matters to our nation.”

In a statement, NPR said: “Eliminating funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting would have a devastating impact on American communities across the nation that rely on public radio for trusted local and national news, culture, lifesaving emergency alerts, and public safety information.”

President Trump is expected to propose rescinding $1.1 billion — two years worth of funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, or CPB, a congressionally chartered independent nonprofit organization that in turn partially funds NPR and PBS.

The Congress gave $535 million for the current year, which was reflected in a recent stop-gap bill. The CPB’s budgets are approved by Congress on a two-year cycle in large part to insulate it from political pressures; Congress has appropriated funds through Sept 30, 2027.

The First President of the Public Broadcasting Service, Paula Kerger, blasted by a YouTube Video of a Young Drag Performer

They asked Paula Kerger, the PBS CEO and President, about a video in which a drag performer sings a song for a young audience. Kerger said that the video was posted on the website of the PBS New York City member station and never aired on television.

The Republicans criticized NPR’s chief for political messages she posted on social media long before she became president and CEO. Their questioning also focused largely on stories published before her arrival at NPR.

Some Republican lawmakers, however, vented about what they saw as biased reporting. “You can hate us all on your own dime,” said Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, the chair of the subcommittee that held the hearing. The chairman of the House Oversight Committee complains about the coverage of his investments with a shell company.

“We serve the public interest. It’s more than simply our name, it’s our mission. It said that locally owned pubic media stations represent a proud American tradition of public-private partnership for our shared common good.

PBS has a nightly newscast called PBS NewsHour, while NPR’s Morning Edition and All Things Considered are award-winning news programs.

In a statement on Monday that did not refer to the memo, the White House said: “For years, American taxpayers have been on the hook for subsidizing National Public Radio (NPR) and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), which spread radical, woke propaganda disguised as ‘news.'” The statement includes examples of what the White House said is “trash that passes as ‘news” and “intolerance of non-leftist viewpoints.”

The memo, which the administration plans to send to Congress when it reconvenes from recess on April 28, will open a 45-day window in which the House and Senate can either approve the rescission or allow the money to be restored.

NPR. A two year extension of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CBPB) to 2027 if Congress approves it

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Neuman is a person. Yeah. The Congress appropriated over $1 billion for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting in the next two years. That’s the nonprofit, congressionally chartered group that partly funds NPR and PBS. So essentially, the federal funds for public broadcasting would be cut immediately and then the next two years, so through 2027, the end of the fiscal year.