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Trump orders Corporation for Public Broadcasting to end federal funding for NPR and PBS (edition.cnn.com)

submitted 1 year ago by Skavau@lemm.ee to c/Television@lemm.ee

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[-] Weirdfish@lemmy.world 40 points 1 year ago

So he shot Big Bird on 5th ave and we're going to let him get away with it.

[-] whotookkarl@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

It's not his call & an illegal executive order, funding is Congress and the corporation for public broadcast is a corporation not a government department.

[-] laurelraven 9 points 1 year ago

That statement could be applied to a lot of things he's done and gotten away with so far so forgive me if that fails to give me hope

[-] errer@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Big Bird was already dying on the street (hence selling to HBO), Trump pissing on his writhing corpse

[-] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 32 points 1 year ago

Okay, so under normal circumstances, is this something the president is allowed to do, or is this something that should be congress' decision? Because it feels like the latter.

This is just super disappointing. PBS has some really great programming.

[-] tgpe@sopuli.xyz 60 points 1 year ago

It has guaranteed funding through 2027 by Congress, so no.

[-] adarza@lemmy.ca 25 points 1 year ago

and the cpb was set up by congress specifically in a way that denies the president the ability to do shit like this.

[-] laurelraven 10 points 1 year ago

Let's see if it actually plays out that way in practice

[-] werewolfborg@ttrpg.network 34 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

No. I think almost all of his executive orders have been things only congress does. No one is really stopping him from pumping hundreds of them out whether or not they’re even allowed to work. Also, he’s trying to pressure a private company through executive order in this case. They can say “fuck no.” And they should say “fuck no.”