Donald Trump just lately signed an govt order stripping the Company for Public Broadcasting of $500 million in funding and prohibiting it from getting any future funds, however there’s a drawback.
The Company for Public Broadcasting isn’t a part of the federal authorities.
Patricia Harrison, President and CEO of the Company for Public Broadcasting, mentioned in an announcement on Friday:
CPB isn’t a federal govt company topic to the President’s authority. Congress instantly approved and funded CPB to be a non-public nonprofit company wholly unbiased of the federal authorities.
In creating CPB, Congress expressly forbade ‘any division, company, officer, or worker of the USA to train any course, supervision, or management over instructional tv or radio broadcasting, or over [CPB] or any of its grantees or contractors…’ 47 U.S.C. § 398(c).
Trump has as a lot authorized authority to defund NPR and PBS as he does to defund Wendy’s, which is one other approach of claiming that he has none.
Rep. John Larson (D-CT) identified that many native NPR and PBS stations depend upon federal funding:
