NPR sues Trump over executive order cutting federal funding

[struth]

I really enjoyed Ken Burns Civil War and Baseball documentary. I also watch Antique Roadshow a lot,

Certainly far more than a monument to those who lost the Civil War.

I like ken burns a lot too, cost me money to buy his Vietnam doc.

Not sure what that has to do with anything. If you like it you’d pay for it too

What monument?

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

Their right to free speech isn’t being violated.

Of course it is.

 

[Foxfyre]

No, different bill.

Executive orders are not bills.

 

[hadit]

Of course it is.

They are not entitled to taxpayer funding, anymore than FOX News would be.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

“National Public Radio on Tuesday sued President Donald Trump over his executive order to cease all federal funding for the nonprofit broadcaster.

Trump’s May 1 order violates the First Amendment’s protections for speech and the press and steps on Congress’ authority, NPR and three other public radio stations wrote in the lawsuit filed in federal court Washington, D.C.”

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/27/trump-npr-lawsuit-funding-order.html

Very good.

Trump is an authoritarian despot with nothing but contempt for the First Amendment, a free press, and the Constitution.

Government paid speech is not Free Speech, it's propaganda

 

[CrusaderFrank]

“National Public Radio on Tuesday sued President Donald Trump over his executive order to cease all federal funding for the nonprofit broadcaster.

Trump’s May 1 order violates the First Amendment’s protections for speech and the press and steps on Congress’ authority, NPR and three other public radio stations wrote in the lawsuit filed in federal court Washington, D.C.”

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/27/trump-npr-lawsuit-funding-order.html

Very good.

Trump is an authoritarian despot with nothing but contempt for the First Amendment, a free press, and the Constitution.

How's this: Trump funds NPR, fires everyone there, replaces them with Karoline Leavitt? Free speech, right?

 

[Fang]

Of course it is.

How? They are all free to say what they want. But at their own expense, not mine or anyone else's.

Explain...

 

[Fang]

How's this: Trump funds NPR, fires everyone there, replaces them with Karoline Leavitt? Free speech, right?

oh... Game, Set, Match right there.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

oh... Game, Set, Match right there.

He can do that if the law permits it, not because he simply wants to.

 

[ThisIsMe]

“National Public Radio on Tuesday sued President Donald Trump over his executive order to cease all federal funding for the nonprofit broadcaster.

Trump’s May 1 order violates the First Amendment’s protections for speech and the press and steps on Congress’ authority, NPR and three other public radio stations wrote in the lawsuit filed in federal court Washington, D.C.”

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/27/trump-npr-lawsuit-funding-order.html

Very good.

Trump is an authoritarian despot with nothing but contempt for the First Amendment, a free press, and the Constitution.

NPRs 1A isnt violated if government doesnt give them funding.

 

[Fang]

He can do that if the law permits it, not because he simply wants to.

From the article you posted:

Trump asserted in the executive order that government funding of the news is “not only outdated and unnecessary but corrosive to the appearance of journalistic independence.”

A news organization should not rely on funding from the government it is tasked with holding accountable. Would you not agree with that?

If NPR is expecting any funding from the Federal government then they need to remain unbiased. In any event, this most certainly is not a freedom of speech question.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

From the article you posted:

Trump asserted in the executive order that government funding of the news is “not only outdated and unnecessary but corrosive to the appearance of journalistic independence.”

A news organization should not rely on funding from the government it is tasked with holding accountable. Would you not agree with that?

If NPR is expecting any funding from the Federal government then they need to remain unbiased. In any event, this most certainly is not a freedom of speech question.

Governments fund all sorts of private operations, from information to mining to railroads to uranium to space development. Why not?

 

[MisterBeale]

They are not entitled to taxpayer funding, anymore than FOX News would be.

The big argument here between the left and right, is the left have a notion that as long as the money is appropriated, the administration has to spend it. It matters very little what our opinions on the matter is.


With that said, I looked it up.

NPR gets its government funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. PBS gets its government funding from them as well.

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Corporation for Public Broadcasting - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

The fact of the matter is, the rescission for 2026 budget was passed in law in Congress. There really isn't a lot the CPB can do.

SO I don't expect NPR to have a leg to stand on in court, that is not the court's jurisdiction, it is the prerogative of congress to law out what gets funded, and what does not.

The CPB, the agency that spawned NPR, PBS and modern public media, begins winding down​

The Senate Appropriations Committee failed to include future funding in the latest budget pass. WHYY says its future remains though other area stations face challenges.

Following federal funding cuts, CPB shuts down

The Senate Appropriations Committee failed to include future funding in the latest budget pass. WHYY says its future remains though other area stations face challenges.

whyy.org

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[MisterBeale]

Governments fund all sorts of private operations, from information to mining to railroads to uranium to space development. Why not?

True, but the whole argument in this thread is moot.

Congress has appropriated no funding to the CPB, thus, NPR has no leg to stand on when the 2026 budget cycle begins.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

OK, I understand that.

 

[Captain Caveman]

Then why are they trying to get tax payers to fund it?

Because they want to do things but not at their cost. They apply that formula to everything.

 

[Fang]

Governments fund all sorts of private operations, from information to mining to railroads to uranium to space development. Why not?

So you would be OK if Trump announced the Government (your tax dollars) will fund a portion of FoxNews.