Public Broadcasting CEO: Trump Has No Authority to Defund

Public Broadcasting CEO: Trump Can’t Defund

Patricia Harrison, president and CEO of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), said Friday that only Congress, not President Donald Trump, has the authority to defund PBS and NPR.

Harrison released a statement after Trump signed an executive order late Thursday that cut funding to PBS and NPR. The Trump administration has labeled both news outlets as partisan and biased.

“CPB is not a federal executive agency subject to the President’s authority. Congress directly authorized and funded CPB to be a private nonprofit corporation wholly independent of the federal government,” Harrison’s statement read.

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