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Trump signs executive order to cut funding to NPR, PBS
Clip: 5/2/2025 | 1m 3sVideo has Closed Captions
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President Trump signed an executive order on Thursday to slash funding for PBS, National Public Radio, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) and America’s Public Television Stations. NJ Spotlight News is the news desk of NJ PBS and a grantee of CPB.
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NJ Spotlight News is a local public television program presented by THIRTEEN PBS
NJ Spotlight News
Trump signs executive order to cut funding to NPR, PBS
Clip: 5/2/2025 | 1m 3sVideo has Closed Captions
President Trump signed an executive order on Thursday to slash funding for PBS, National Public Radio, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) and America’s Public Television Stations. NJ Spotlight News is the news desk of NJ PBS and a grantee of CPB.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipand more funding cuts from Washington Late last night President Trump signed an executive order to slash funding for PBS NPR CPB the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and APs that's America's public television stations Now NJ Spotlight News is the news division of New Jerseys PBS station The legality of the executive order has been called into question by leaders of each entity because it's Congress that appropriates that funding which flows through the CPB to the public media networks And Congress has allocated those funds through September of 2027 Now President Trump took to social media recently calling on Republicans to defund NPR and PBS that he calls quote the radical left monsters that so badly hurt our country Leaders from all four entities have vowed to challenge the order The CPB is suing the administration for attempting to fire three out of five of its board members [Music]
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