Judge invalidates Trump executive order, but Congress also cut off all funding.
A federal judge ruled that Trump’s executive order defunding NPR and PBS violated the First Amendment and issued a permanent injunction stating that executive branch agencies cannot enforce it.
The Trump order’s “instruction that all federal agencies stop funding NPR and PBS constitutes a penalty for engaging in speech disfavored by the President and cannot be lawfully implemented by any executive department or agency,” Judge Randolph Moss, an Obama appointee in US District Court for the District of Columbia, ruled yesterday.
The ruling against Trump in the case filed by NPR, PBS, and several stations may not have much practical impact. Trump’s May 2025 executive order was followed by Congress rescinding the entire Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) budget of $1.1 billion for fiscal years 2026 and 2027.
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Support your local stations financially if you can!
i dont think i live in a country where the station accepts donations :/ .
In some markets. Not all. Imagine a Midwest NPR affiliate trying to get by on yokel cash. Here in Seattle, we have two - KNKX (my good friend is the morning host there), and KUOW. We also have an indy station that plays only music called KEXP.
Bigger markets can prop up NPR on donations.
also KBCS in Bellevue, just east of Lake Washington
Yeah… but that’s East Side. We don’t mix with East Side. ;)
(I’m kidding, of course)
& we are now inextricably conjoined by light rail & the Eastside is no longer the cultural & ethnic near-desert it once was…vive la difference!
I see,ty.