Fact or Fiction: PBS, NPR Shutting Down Due to Cuts by Trump Administration?

Fact or Fiction: PBS, NPR shutting down due to cuts by Trump Administration?

(KGTV) A number of posts and memes on social media are claiming PBS and NPR are shutting down because of cuts by the Trump Administration.But that's not true.At the President's urging, the Republican-controlled Congress did rescind more than a billion dollars for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which subsequently announced it will shut down.That's a huge financial blow for more than 1,500 local public tv and radio stations which rely on…

Don't Whine About Budget Cuts, Lefties, Just Chip In

Daniel McCarthy, New York Post President Donald Trump has given political liberals a chance to take a stand for NPR, PBS and all the causes they claim to care about.

Trump Cuts to PBS and NPR Endanger Press Freedom - Davis Vanguard

The Trump administration has made $1.1 billion in cuts to public broadcasting and has attacked the free press by filing a $10 billion defamation lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal, according to the ACLU, which argues that these actions violate the First Amendment.