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Times of Oman
27-05-2025
- Business
- Times of Oman
NPR sues Trump over executive order to end funding
Washington, DC: National Public Radio (NPR) announced on Tuesday it is suing President Donald Trump over his executive order to cut federal funding for the nonprofit network of broadcasters. NPR and three public radio stations wrote in the lawsuit filed in federal court in Washington, DC, that Trump's order on May 1 violated the First Amendment's protections of speech and the press and steps on Congressional authority to determine how the US government spends its funds. The broadcasting company and the Colorado Public Radio, Aspen Public Radio and KSUT Public Radio member stations want Trump's order blocked and declared unconstitutional. The executive order asserted that government funding of the news is "not only outdated and unnecessary but corrosive to the appearance of journalistic independence.' According to the legal complaint, which was filed against Trump, a number of other top officials and federal agencies, added that the order "threatens the existence of a public radio system that millions of Americans across the country rely on for vital news and information." It "expressly aims to punish and control Plaintiffs' news coverage and other speech the Administration deems 'biased,'" attorneys for the news outlets wrote. "It cannot stand." How is NPR funded? NPR employs hundreds of journalists whose work is broadcast by more than 1,000 local member stations. Most of its initial funding was allocated by Congress and delivered through the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, or CPB, but that changed in the 1980s when the Reagan Administration reduced public media funding. Only 1% of NPR's revenue now comes directly from the federal government, according to the organization. The largest share of its funding, 36%, comes from corporate sponsorships, NPR said. The lawsuit argues that Congress has long recognized that the speech it supports with public funding "remains private — and thus fully protected from censorship, retaliation or other forms of governmental interference." "The Order is textbook retaliation and viewpoint-based discrimination in violation of the First Amendment," the lawsuit alleges.
CBS News
27-05-2025
- Business
- CBS News
NPR sues Trump over executive order slashing federal funding
Washington — NPR on Tuesday sued President Trump and administration officials over an executive order signed earlier this month that seeks to cut federal funding to the news organization and PBS. Filed in the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., the suit was brought by NPR and three Colorado-based public radio stations. It argues that Mr. Trump's executive order violates the First Amendment and provisions of the Public Broadcasting Act, which was passed by Congress in 1967. The plaintiffs also assert that Mr. Trump did not have the authority to stop federal funding for NPR and PBS. The order, NPR and the three stations said in their complaint, is "textbook retaliation" and discriminates based on viewpoint, which is a violation of the First Amendment. "The order's objectives could not be clearer: the order aims to punish NPR for the content of news and other programming the president dislikes and chill the free exercise of First Amendment rights by NPR and individual public radio stations across the country," the lawsuit states. This is a developing story and will be updated
