PBS sues Trump administration for defunding the network

Published May 30, 2025 10:37pm ET



PBS sued the Trump administration on Friday over the president’s move to defund public media.

In an executive order signed May 1, President Donald Trump ordered the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to “cancel existing direct funding to the maximum extent allowed by law and shall decline to provide future funding” to NPR and PBS, arguing they were supporting biased media coverage. PBS alleged that Trump violated their First Amendment rights with the cut and violated the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967.

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