PBS Sues Trump Administration Over Funding Cuts

The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) on May 30 sued President Donald Trump and several federal departments over an executive order directing officials to cut funding to PBS and National Public Radio (NPR), which rely in part on taxpayer money to operate. “Our Constitution and laws forbid the President from serving as the arbiter of the content of PBS’s programming, including by attempting to defund PBS,” the lawsuit from PBS, filed in federal court in Washington, states. Trump on May 1 in an executive order directed the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) to cut direct funding for NPR and PBS. The president said at the time he wanted to end taxpayer money from supporting “biased media” and said that no media outlet “has a constitutional right to taxpayer subsidies.”...