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 a press release on Friday:
CPB isn’t a federal govt company topic to the President’s authority. Congress instantly approved and funded CPB to be a personal nonprofit company wholly impartial 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 academic 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 manner of claiming that he has none.
Rep. John Larson (D-CT) identified that many native NPR and PBS stations rely upon federal funding:
