Donald Trump just lately signed an government order stripping the Company for Public Broadcasting of $500 million in funding and prohibiting it from getting any future funds, however there’s a downside.
The Company for Public Broadcasting just 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 just isn’t a federal government company topic to the President’s authority. Congress straight approved and funded CPB to be a personal nonprofit company wholly unbiased of the federal authorities.
In creating CPB, Congress expressly forbade ‘any division, company, officer, or worker of america to train any path, 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 manner of claiming that he has none.
Rep. John Larson (D-CT) identified that many native NPR and PBS stations rely on federal funding:
