Trump signs order seeking to end federal funding for NPR and PBS
The executive order also instructs the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to halt indirect funding of NPR and PBS through grants to local stations.
CPB is the main distributor of federal funds to public media. It receives about $535 million in federal funds per fiscal year, which it mostly spends on grants to hundreds of stations nationwide. The stations spend the grants on making their own programming or on buying programming from services such as NPR and PBS.
CPB, created by an act of Congress in 1967, also sometimes provides direct grants to NPR and PBS to produce national programs.
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