NPR/PBS sue Trump

Representatives Alma Adams, Deborah Ross, Valerie Foushee, and Don Davis wrote, “Public broadcasting is pivotal to North Carolina, and across the country, especially during hurricane season and other natural disasters.”

The Senate voted by a razor-thin margin late Tuesday to advance debate on a package of funding cuts requested by President Trump that would claw back $1.1 billion previously allocated to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

The Trump administration has asked Congress to rescind funds for NPR/PBS and foreign aid. Congress has until the end of the week to approve the cuts.

The U.S. House voted Thursday on a rescission bill to claw back money for foreign aid programs, along with the next two years of funding for the public media system. The measure now goes to the Senate.

In addition to the federal funding cut threats that public broadcasters across the country are facing, PBS North Carolina could also lose a big chunk of its state funding this year.

President Trump is asking lawmakers to claw back the $1.1 billion in federal subsidies for public broadcasting that Congress approved earlier this year. His request also includes cuts to foreign aid.

PBS and Lakeland PBS in rural Minnesota are suing President Trump over his executive order demanding that the Corporation for Public Broadcasting kill all funding for the public television network.

NPR's Michel Martin talks with attorney Theodore Boutrous, who is representing NPR in a legal challenge to Trump White House plans to stop federal funding of public media.

NPR and several public radio stations are suing the Trump White House over an executive order that purportedly bars the use of Congressionally appropriated funds for NPR and PBS.

NPR filed suit this morning against President Trump and other administration officials over his executive order seeking to ban any federal funds from going to NPR or PBS.