PBS filed a lawsuit this week challenging a Trump-era executive order that stripped the public broadcaster of key federal funding, calling the move “unconstitutional, retaliatory and a direct threat to public media’s independence.”
The order, signed early this month, is meant to cut money from public media that Trump believes is "radical, woke propoganda disguised as 'news.'" This isn’t the first time they tried this. In the last days of the first Trump era, they tried to cut funding for PBS and NPR. But this time, this cut is from the start of the term. This time, the U.S. Department of Education canceled a $78 million grant to the system for educational programming that makes shows like “Sesame Street” and “Reading Rainbow.”
