President Trump signs executive order ending taxpayer subsidy of NPR and PBS
President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order terminating the federal funding of National Public Radio (NPR) and Public Broadcasting Services (PBS) to the maximum extent allowable by law. The White House fact sheet announcing this executive order detailed the differences between 1967 and 2025. Not as many information, including news, sources were available in the 1960s as they are now given the options information consumers have today. The left leaning biases for these publicly funded news sources also formed a motivation for the order.
From the White House:
Unlike in 1967, when CPB was established, today the media landscape is filled with abundant, diverse, and innovative news options, making government funding of news media outdated, unnecessary, and corrosive to journalistic independence.
Moreover, while the CPB is legally mandated to be “nonpolitical [in] nature” and not “contribute to or otherwise support any political party,” both NPR and PBS make significant in-kind contributions to the Democrat party and its political causes.
An NPR editor found that registered Democrats outnumbered Republicans 87 to zero in the newsroom’s editorial positions.
NPR’s President and CEO admitted that she regards “truth” as a harmful “distraction” from NPR’s objectives.
To illustrate its partisan capture, NPR management asked its editors to avoid the term “biological sex” when discussing transgender issues.
NPR has run stories defending looting and suggesting that crime fears are racist and has described its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) practices as “inseparable” from its content.
NPR refused to cover the Hunter Biden laptop story, calling it a waste of time and a distraction, despite that it was highly relevant to the presidential election.
NPR repeatedly insisted COVID-19 did not originate in a lab and refused to explore the theory.
- The FBI, CIA, and Department of Energy have all since deemed the lab-leak theory the likely cause.
NPR ran a Valentine’s Day feature around “queer animals,” in which it suggested the make-believe clownfish in “Finding Nemo” would’ve been better off as a female, that “banana slugs are hermaphrodites,” and that “some deer are nonbinary.”
Research shows that “congressional Republicans faced 85% negative coverage, compared to 54% positive coverage of congressional Democrats,” on PBS’s flagship news program.
Over a six-month period, PBS News Hour used versions of the term “far-right” 162 times, but “far-left” only 6 times.
A PBS station featured drag queen Lil Miss Hot Mess on a program meant for kids ages 3-8.
PBS produced a movie titled “Real Boy” which celebrates a transgender teen’s transition.
PBS show Sesame Street partnered with CNN for a town hall aimed presenting children with a one-sided narrative to “address racism” amid the Black Lives Matter riots.
PBS’s coverage of the 2024 Republican National Convention was 72% negative, while its coverage of the 2024 Democratic National Convention was 88% positive.
No media outlet has a Constitutional right to taxpayer subsidized operations, and it’s highly inappropriate for taxpayers to be forced to subsidize biased, partisan content.
Additional Reading:
White House Staff. (2025, May 1). Fact sheet: President Donald J. Trump ends the taxpayer subsidization of biased media. The White House. Link.
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Can’t argue with that. If the Woke Left wants to continue funding PBS and NPR, then allow federally funded conservative television and radio networks. Then open the door to every fringe political party to get their own government subsidized media broadcasting stations.
Or, we can just use the free market. If NPR and PBS have an audience wide enough, let advertisers pay to let them broadcast their slanted coverage. And if the audience is not large enough to attract advertisers, then obviously nobody is watching or listening.
Hell yeah. I look forward to the wailing and gnashing of teeth.
they can teethe on their NPR tote bags.
Once again… Nooooo!
What a cry baby and speaking of crying how about
The Jive Five singing ‘My True Story” 1961 on the Beltone label..
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Dems first tried to kill PBS back in the 70s, because the programming was “integrated”. This was kind of ground breaking at the time and Mississippi (and other Democrat controlled states) refused to play shows with “coloreds” as on Sesame Street, playing with white kids, because they thought children “wouldn’t understand”. In 1978, under Carter they nearly dropped the whole thing.
To counteract this they recruited a large number of Dems to run programming boards. Since that time it has pretty much been Dem controlled. The absolute Fantasyland that they have created with respect to how they believed inner city kids live has been widely mocked over the years with Mr Robinsons Neighborhood and Homey the Clown.
Still, there are a few adult shows that have had broad appeal like This Old House and Antique’s Roadshow. At this point only 15% of their funding comes from the fed so they could likely make it if they tried without any tax dollars.
Without “The Electric Company” on PBS in the 70’s, we wouldn’t have Morgan Freeman.
Fuck yeah!
How long before the ruling stating that a previous subsidy creates a perpetual obligation?
We should defund the House and Senate, fire all the staff, and sell the building off to the highest bidder…. so long as it ain’t Orange Man Bad of course.
The ‘Judges’ are the captain now.
Clearly we are to stupid to read law and do what it says without their supervision.
Fucking crickets from NPR regarding ConVid-1984 censorship by way of a blend of state and corporate powers.
They lost my meager support in the run-up to ’16 with the demonizing of DJT and tongue batheing of HRC. The data they’d provide had a value for me back years ‘go. It got bad, real bad, and I had to stop listening.
Also NPR, why you no like the truth about that “gun violence” yous go nutso over? The US of A in no measurable way has any problems with firearms held by the average citizen.
That being said: die angry.
I was onboard with their viewpoint until they decided not to cover the very newsworthy Biden laptop at all. It was a complete abandonment of objectivity. I have not watched News Hour since then and probably never will.
Angus King is gonna have a stroke.
He got his start reading the news for them.
I’ve been waiting decades for this.
Ha,ha,ha,ha,ha, etc.
PBS can continue to “give thanks to those foundations and corporate partners for their generous support”, and always ask for more $:
Acton Family Giving; Anne Ray Foundation; The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations; Bank of America; Endless Network; Ford Foundation; General Motors Corporate Giving; Hoveida Family Foundation; Johnson & Johnson; Kern Family Foundation; Leighty Foundation; National Endowment for the Arts; National Science Foundation; PNC Foundation; Pew Charitable Trust; Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation; Rosalind P. Walter Foundation, and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.
NPR can do the same thing with their 60 sponsors (too many to list) and 200+ donors.
Then they can all go and EABOD.
The only thing that interests me on PBS is this old house.
And if PBS is funded by my tax dollars, why do they have so many fund raisers asking for more money.
About time the plug is pulled on these radical democrat PBS/NPR news channels. Make sure they lose any tax-exempt statuses and any mandatory inclusion in programming to government channels. Like to the military, house and senate. And let’s not forget about the schools that force PBS upon students.
If they go away because the govt funding dries up, well this says it all AFAIAC.