LANSING, Mich. (Michigan News Source) – Consider this, public media. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday night that ends taxpayer funds for National Public Radio (NPR) and Public Broadcasting Corporation (PBS).

President Trump’s executive order, which is likely to be challenged in court, cuts off both entities from “tens of millions of dollars in taxpayer funds each year to spread radical, woke propaganda disguised as ‘news,'” according to a press release from the White House.

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The Corporation of Public Broadcasting secures the operating budget for PBS and NPR through Congress. The FY 2025 Operating Budget shows $535 million earmarked for the media outlets.

Both outlets also dip into the same taxpayer well throughout the year with its pledge drives.

NPR published a piece on Friday morning that reported on Trump’s executive order and highlighted CEO Katherine Maher and her recent defense of the network’s coverage. “I think that it’s important for public media to be able to continue to be relevant in a time where there is a lot of coverage of different issues and areas of interest,” Maher said.

Two weeks ago, the East Lansing NPR affiliate WKAR’s senior director of content and education Ashlee Smith penned an op-ed in the Lansing State Journal which praised the “essential services” of public media. She said WKAR is the hub for the Michigan Emergency Alerting System. However, other stations broadcast emergency alerts as well.

In addition, Smith wrote WKAR has distributed 100,000 books to kids and provides “programs that you won’t find anywhere else.”

Some of those “programs you won’t find anywhere else” include a piece on the natural practice of cannibalism and the promotion of “gender-affirming care” for children. PBS devoted an episode of “A Seat at the Table” to “what it really means to be woke.”

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Before NPR left X in 2023 for other social media platforms, it apologized for “a mistake” in an immigration story. “NPR’s policy is not to characterize people as ‘illegal.’ We slip up from time to time, but we’ll keep working hard to get it right.”

Last fall, WKAR partnered with the City of East Lansing to host an early voting center on the campus of Michigan State University.