Left-Leaning NPR Sues President Trump in Clash over Federal Funding Cuts

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Amy Furr 27 May 2025

Left-leaning National Public Radio (NPR) is suing President Donald Trump’s administration over an executive order that halts its federal funding, which Republican lawmakers have been trying to achieve.

NPR levied the lawsuit on Tuesday and it is also concerned about PBS losing funding, CBS News reported.

The executive order Trump filed a few weeks ago halted funds to PBS and NPR and claimed the organizations which are funded via taxpayer money have exercised political bias, according to Breitbart News.

The CBS article continued:

    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, and his order should be invalidated as unconstitutional.

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[IsailedawayfromFR]

Rich - Using the taxpayer money we gave them to sue us.

Hope they lose mightedly in court

[mountaineer]

It argues that Mr. Trump’s executive order violates the First Amendment

The First Amendment says the government cannot muzzle your opinions; it doesn't require that the taxpayers foot the bill for your megaphone (or microphones, cameras, etc., as the case may be).

[Hoodat]

[NPR] 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, and his order should be invalidated as unconstitutional.

NPR has been in egregious violation of Sec 399 of the Public Broadcasting Act for decades.  They do not have a legal leg to stand on.  Furthermore, there is no 'First Amendment' violation of said Act.  And the President indeed does have authority under the Constitution to control money allocated by Congress.

[Smokin Joe]

The First Amendment guarantees freedom of speech. It does not guarantee funding to conduct that speech.

Nor does any part of the Constitution say that the Government can compel people to provide that funding.

NPR should lose, period.

Now countersue for the cost of this egregious nonsense.