End public funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting
What the document says“the next conservative President must finally get this done and do it despite opposition from congressional members of his own party if necessary. To stop public funding is good policy and good politics.”
The chapter argues that the government is heavily in debt, that it should not compel what it calls the conservative half of the country to pay for the suppression of its own views, and quotes Jefferson on compelled contributions. It says stopping public funding must be done even over opposition from the President's own party in Congress.
What the document actually says“the next conservative President must finally get this done and do it despite opposition from congressional members of his own party if necessary. To stop public funding is good policy and good politics.”
The next president must get this done. He should do it even if his own party fights him.
Public radio and television get money from the government. The book says that should stop. It says the president should push it through. It says he should do so even if his own party says no.
Ending Taxpayer Subsidization of Biased Media
2025-05-01 · 90 FR 19415
Executive Order 14290, signed May 1, 2025, instructs the Corporation for Public Broadcasting Board to cancel direct funding to NPR and PBS to the maximum extent allowed by law and to decline future funding, to revise the 2025 Community Service Grants provisions so station grantees cannot pass federal money to either, and directs every agency to identify and terminate its own direct or indirect funding of the two. Where it falls short of the proposal: it does not end public funding of the Corporation itself. The Corporation's appropriation is made by Congress and the order leaves it standing, directing only where the money may go once received. The chapter asks the President to stop the funding even over opposition in his own party in Congress, which is a legislative act the order does not perform.
The order tells the public media board to cut off two networks. Stations may not pass federal money to them either. But the board's own funding stays. Congress votes that money, and the order only steers where it goes.