Donald Trump recently signed an executive order in which the company for public broadcasting in the amount of 500 million US dollars in financial resources and prohibits it to receive future funds, but there is a problem.
The corporation for public broadcasting is not part of the federal government.
Patricia Harrison, President and CEO of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, said in a statement on Friday:
CPB is not a federal executive agency that is subject to the President's authority. The Congress has approved and financed CPB directly to a private non -profit society regardless of the federal government.
When creating CPB of Congress, a department, agency, representative or employee of the United States expressly prohibited a direction, supervision or control over educational television or radio broadcasts or via [CPB] Or one of his scholarship holders or contractors… '47 USC § 398 (c).
Trump has as much legal authority to develop NPR and PBS
Rep. John Larson (D-C) pointed out that many local NPR and PBS stations depend on federal financing:
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