"It’s the latest move by Trump and his administration to utilize federal powers to control or hamstring institutions whose actions or viewpoints he disagrees with. Since taking office, Trump has ousted leaders, placed staff on administrative leave and cut off hundreds of millions of dollars in funding to artists, libraries, museums, theaters and others, through takeovers of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities."

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Trump signs executive order directing federal funding cuts to PBS and NPR

The order instructs the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and other federal agencies “to cease Federal funding for NPR and PBS."

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