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    PBS sues Trump administration over defunding

    LEN EditorBy LEN EditorMay 30, 2025Updated:May 31, 2025 World No Comments2 Mins Read
    PBS sues Trump administration over defunding

    A stuffed Cookie Monster is seated in a control room at the Arizona PBS offices in Phoenix, US. Picture: Katie Oyan/AP

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    PBS has filed a legal claim against US President Donald Trump and other administration officials to block his order stripping funding from the American broadcaster, three days after NPR did the same for its radio network.

    In the claim, PBS relies on similar arguments, saying Mr Trump was overstepping his authority and engaging in “viewpoint discrimination” because of his claim that PBS’ news coverage is biased against conservatives.

    “PBS disputes those charged assertions in the strongest possible terms,” lawyer Z W Julius Chen wrote in the case, filed in a US court in Washington.

    One of the control rooms at the Arizona PBS offices at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication in Phoenix (Katie Oyan/AP)

    “But regardless of any policy disagreements over the role of public television, our constitution and laws forbid the president from serving as the arbiter of the content of PBS’s programming, including by attempting to defund PBS.”

    It was the latest of many legal actions taken against the administration for its moves, including several by media organisations impacted by Mr Trump’s orders.

    A PBS spokesman said that “after careful deliberation, PBS reached the conclusion that it was necessary to take legal action to safeguard public television’s editorial independence, and to protect the autonomy of PBS member stations”.

    Mr Trump’s order “would have profound impacts on the ability of PBS and PBS member stations to provide a rich tapestry of programming to all Americans,” Mr Chen wrote.

    PBS said the US Department of Education has cancelled a 78 million dollar grant to the system for educational programming, used to make children’s shows like Sesame Street, Clifford the Big Red Dog and Reading Rainbow.

    Besides Mr Trump, the claim names other administration officials as defendants, including US education secretary Linda McMahon, treasury secretary Scott Bessent and homeland security secretary Kristi Noem.

    PBS says its technology is used as a backup for the nationwide wireless emergency alert system.

    The administration has fought with several media organisations. Government-run news services like Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty are also struggling, The Associated Press has battled with the White House over press access and the Federal Communications Commission is investigating television news divisions.

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