CPB Fires Back at Trump's Order Defunding NPR, PBS

President Trump signs an executive order directing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to halt all federal funding to NPR and PBS, calling their taxpayer support outdated and a threat to journalistic independence. The order bars CPB grantees from using federal dollars for these outlets, mandates revisions to funding rules, and orders federal agencies to cut any direct or indirect support to the maximum extent allowed by law. Read more about this...