Trump signs the executive order that directs federal fund cuts to PBS and NPR

Trump signs the executive order that directs federal fund cuts to PBS and NPR

Washington – President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday with the aim of reducing public subsidies to PBS and NPR, since he claimed “bias” in the reports of the broadcasters.

The order instructs the corporation for public transmission and other federal agencies “to cease federal funds for NPR and PBS” and also requires working to eliminate indirect sources of public financing for news organizations. The White House, in a publication on the social networks that the firm announces, said that the media “receive millions of taxpayers to disseminate radical propaganda and wake up disguised as ‘news’.”

It is the last Trump movement and its administration to use federal powers to control or ischiotibial institutions whose actions or views do not agree. Since he assumed the position, Trump has expelled the leaders, placed the administrative license and cut hundreds of millions of dollars in funds to artists, libraries, museums, theaters and others, through the acquisition of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and the national endowment of the humanities. Trump has also pressed to retain federal research and education funds from universities and punish law firms unless they agree to eliminate diversity programs and other measures that Trump has found objectable.

The stations Get approximately one billion dollars In public money through the Corporation for Public Transmission, and have been preparing for the possibility of strong cuts from Trump’s elections, since Republicans have complained for a long time.

Paula Kerger, CEO and president of PBS, said in a statement last month that the effort of the Trump administration to terminate the funds for public media “would interrupt the essential service that PBS and the local member stations provide to the US people.”

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“There is nothing more American than PBS, and our work is only possible due to the bipartisan support that we have always received from Congress,” he said. “This public-private association allows us to help prepare millions of children for success in school and in life and also support enriching and inspiring programs of the highest quality.”

The Corporation for Public Radiodice demanded Trump earlier this week for its move to fire three members of its Board of five people, holding that the president was exceeding his authority and that the measure would deprive the Board of a quorum necessary to carry out businesses.

Only two weeks ago, the White House said it would ask Congress to terminate the funds for the CPB as part of a $ 9.1 billion cuts package. However, that package, that the budget director, Russell Vought, said he would probably be the first of several, has not yet been sent to Capitol Hill.

The movement against PBS and NPR occurs when its administration has been working to dismantle the US agency for global media, including Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, which were designed to model an independent news collection worldwide in societies that restrict the press. These efforts have faced federal courts, which say in some cases that the Trump administration may have exceeded their authority to stop the funds assigned to the points of sale by Congress.

The correspondent of the AP Lisa Mascaro Congress contributed.

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