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American Focus > Blog > Politics > It Turns Out That Trump Can’t Defund NPR And PBS
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It Turns Out That Trump Can’t Defund NPR And PBS

Last updated: May 2, 2025 2:35 pm
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Recently, Donald Trump took a bold step by signing an executive order intended to withdraw $500 million in funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), while also preventing any future financial support. However, this audacious move runs into a significant hurdle: the CPB is not a federal entity.

Patricia Harrison, the President and CEO of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, clarified this situation in a statement released on Friday:

CPB is not a federal executive agency subject to the President’s authority. 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…’ 47 U.S.C. § 398(c).

This legal backdrop suggests that Trump’s authority to cut off funding for NPR and PBS is akin to his power to defund a fast-food chain like Wendy’s—essentially, he has no legitimate authority to do so.

Representative John Larson (D-CT) highlighted a critical point in this debate: numerous local NPR and PBS stations rely significantly on federal funding. Thus, this executive order could jeopardize the very fabric of public broadcasting that serves communities across the nation.

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