A federal judge has struck down parts of an executive order seeking to cut off public funding for the Public Broadcasting Service and NPR, finding that the effort was unconstitutional.
“The First Amendment does not tolerate viewpoint discrimination and retaliation of this type,” wrote U.S. District Judge Randolph Moss in an order issued on Tuesday.
The executive order, called “Ending Taxpayer Subsidization of Biased Media,” slashed subsidies for public media. It’s part of President Donald Trump’s ongoing campaign to leverage federal powers to undercut institutions whose viewpoints he disagrees with. The broadcasters, which filed a lawsuit against the government over the effort, get roughly half a billion dollars in Congressional funding through the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
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