Earlier this month, Trump signed an executive order ending the taxpayer subsidization of National Public Radio. Conservatives have been calling for this for years. Why should they be forced to subsidize a radio network that does nothing but bash conservatives?
Now NPR is suing the Trump administration claiming that their First Amendment rights are being violated.
How does that work, exactly? No one is saying they can’t speak, it’s just about the taxpayer funding. Do the folks at NPR think they have a Constitutional right to taxpayer funding?
FOX News reports:
NPR sues Trump White House over executive order targeting public media
NPR and a trio of Colorado public radio stations sued the Trump administration in federal court on Tuesday over an executive order seeking to cease all federal funding to NPR and PBS.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order earlier this month instructing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and other federal agencies “to cease Federal funding for NPR” and other public media outlets. NPR has vowed to challenge the order “by all means available,” and CEO Katherine Maher took action.
“The Executive Order is a clear violation of the Constitution and the First Amendment’s protections for freedom of speech and association, and freedom of the press. It is an affront to the rights of NPR and NPR’s 246 Member stations, which are locally owned, nonprofit, noncommercial media organizations serving all 50 states and territories. Today, we challenge its constitutionality in the nation’s independent courts,” Maher said in a lengthy statement.
“Public media was established to inform the American public and uphold American democratic values,” Maher continued. “The President’s Executive Order is directly counter to Congress’s long standing intent, as expressed in the Public Broadcasting Act, to foster vibrant institutions that achieve that mission, serving all Americans independent of political influence.”
NPR is not politically independent. It’s a progressive echo chamber.
NPR has a right to free speech.
It doesn’t have a right to our tax dollars. pic.twitter.com/yTPfVwif72
— Congressman Brandon Gill (@RepBrandonGill) May 27, 2025
It’s outrageous that NPR believes it is entitled to your tax dollars.
NPR is a liberal propaganda network and it shouldn’t get a penny from taxpayers.
— Tom Cotton (@TomCottonAR) May 27, 2025
This lawsuit is probably DOA. It looks like an exercise in futility.
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