{"id":40637,"date":"2025-05-04T23:29:40","date_gmt":"2025-05-04T23:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/04\/npr-and-pbs-push-back-against-trumps-order-to-cut-funding-this-could-be-devastating\/"},"modified":"2025-05-04T23:29:40","modified_gmt":"2025-05-04T23:29:40","slug":"npr-and-pbs-push-back-against-trumps-order-to-cut-funding-this-could-be-devastating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/04\/npr-and-pbs-push-back-against-trumps-order-to-cut-funding-this-could-be-devastating\/","title":{"rendered":"NPR and PBS push back against Trump\u2019s order to cut funding: \u2018This could be devastating\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PBS\u2019s Paula Kerger and NPR\u2019s Katherine Maher say they\u2019re looking at legal options to defend against White House<\/p>\n<p>The heads of embattled US public broadcasters, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/npr\">National Public Radio<\/a> (NPR) and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/pbs\">Public Broadcasting Service<\/a> (PBS), defended themselves against efforts by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/trump-administration\">Trump administration<\/a> to cut off taxpayer funding, with both telling a Sunday political talk show they were looking at legal options.<\/p>\n<p>PBS\u2019s chief executive, Paula Kerger, told CBS News\u2019s Face the Nation that Republican-led threats to withdraw federal funding from public broadcasters had been around for decades but are \u201cdifferent this time\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/may\/04\/npr-pbs-funding-trump-order\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PBS\u2019s Paula Kerger and NPR\u2019s Katherine Maher say they\u2019re looking at legal options to defend against White House The heads of embattled US public broadcasters, National Public Radio (NPR) and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), defended themselves against efforts by the Trump administration to cut off taxpayer funding, with both telling a Sunday political talk &#8230; <a title=\"NPR and PBS push back against Trump\u2019s order to cut funding: \u2018This could be devastating\u2019\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/04\/npr-and-pbs-push-back-against-trumps-order-to-cut-funding-this-could-be-devastating\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about NPR and PBS push back against Trump\u2019s order to cut funding: \u2018This could be devastating\u2019\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}