Donald Trump recently signed an executive decree stripping the public dissemination company of $ 500 million in funding and prohibiting him from obtaining future funds, but there is a problem.
The public dissemination company is not part of the federal government.
Patricia Harrison, president and chief executive officer of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, said on Friday in a press release:
CPB is not a federal executive agency subject to the authority of the president. The congress directly authorized and financed CPB as a private non -profit company entirely independent of the federal government.
In the creation of CPB, the Congress expressly prohibits “any department, agency, officer or employee of the United States to exercise any direction, supervision or control over educational television or radio [CPB] Or one of its beneficiaries or entrepreneurs … “47 USC § 398 (C).
Trump has as much legal authority to undo NPR and PBS as to defeat Wendy, which is another way of saying that he does not.
Representative John Larson (D-CT) stressed that many local stations NPR and PBS depend on federal funding: