The Trump administration is ending federal funding for National Public Radio (NPR) and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), citing the outlets’ left-wing bias, the admin announced in a Thursday executive order.

The two outlets are funded through the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), a private corporation established after the late President Lyndon B. Johnson signed legislation in 1967.

“Unlike in 1967, when the CPB was established, today the media landscape is filled with abundant, diverse, and innovative news options,” President Trump’s executive order read. “Government funding of news media in this environment is not only outdated and unnecessary but corrosive to the appearance of journalistic independence.”

The order said neither outlet “presents a fair, accurate, or unbiased portrayal of current events to taxpaying citizens.”

“Americans have the right to expect that if their tax dollars fund public broadcasting at all, they fund only fair, accurate, unbiased, and nonpartisan news coverage. No media outlet has a constitutional right to taxpayer subsidies, and the Government is entitled to determine which categories of activities to subsidize,” the order says.

It also cites the CPB’s governing statutes, which states the CPB may not “contribute to or otherwise support any political party.”

The executive order manifests a position Trump has long held. In early April, he blasted the broadcasters on Truth Social, writing “REPUBLICANS MUST DEFUND AND TOTALLY DISASSOCIATE THEMSELVES FROM NPR & PBS, THE RADICAL LEFT ‘MONSTERS’ THAT SO BADLY HURT OUR COUNTRY!”

While NPR’s CEO Katherine Maher told Congress in March that the outlet was nonpartisan, a cursory analysis of their stories in the past decade shows they have a liberal bent.

In 2024, when former President Joe Biden began to impose tariffs on China, the outlet pushed multiple neutral headlines and even seemingly pro-Biden headlines like “Why tariffs are SO back” and “Biden announces new tariffs on imports of Chinese goods, including electric vehicles.”

These headlines strike a markedly different tone from ones NPR used to cover Trump’s tariffs, including stories like “Trump used fentanyl to justify tariffs, but the crisis was already easing” and “Trump’s threatened tariffs could push Latin American economies closer to China.”

Former NPR editor Uri Berliner, a 25-year veteran of the company, accused the outlet of willfully turning “a blind eye” to the Hunter Biden laptop story.

“I listened as one of NPR’s best and most fair-minded journalists said it was good we weren’t following the laptop story because it could help Trump,” Berliner wrote in the Free Press. (RELATED: NPR Suspends Editor Who Blew Whistle On Left-Wing Takeover Of Newsroom)

PBS’s coverage of the laptop also exhibited bias. In a 2020 edition of “PBS NewsHour,” PBS’s Nick Schifrin said “disinformation experts I talk to tell me that pro-Russian actors have been packaging their disinformation next to apparently legitimate information, and that they fear that Russian and other actors will continue doing so in the final weeks before the election.”

NPR’s coverage of Covid origins also appeared to show bias. Headlines covering the topic included “Scientists Debunk Lab Accident Theory Of Pandemic Emergence” and “As Trump Pushes Theory Of Virus Origins, Some See Parallels In Lead-Up To Iraq War.”

Even after the U.S. Department of Energy and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) both concluded that the virus likely emerged from a lab, NPR was pushing a story about the virus coming from racoon dogs. (RELATED: White House Launches Website Obliterating The Left’s Favorite COVID Junk Science)

Congress funded the CPB to the tune of $535 million in Fiscal Year 2025, according to the entity’s website. Trump’s executive order could freeze that funding, though the order could be challenged in court.

NPR claims it receives only around 1 percent of its funding “directly from the federal government.” The outlet claimed that it only received $40,000 from US taxpayers in fiscal year 2023, according to a tax record obtained by ProPublica. But that amount made up only a small fraction of the over $98 million in grants the organization received from “all parties,” according to an Open The Books report.