{"id":2439485,"date":"2025-05-27T14:55:02","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T18:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/npr-is-under-delusion-it-has-constitutional-right-to-your-money\/"},"modified":"2025-05-27T14:57:17","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T18:57:17","slug":"npr-is-under-delusion-it-has-constitutional-right-to-your-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/npr-is-under-delusion-it-has-constitutional-right-to-your-money\/","title":{"rendered":"NPR Is Under Delusion It Has Constitutional Right To Your Money"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnpr-is-under-delusion-it-has-constitutional-right-to-your-money%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2439485&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>NPR has filed a lawsuit against teh Trump governance, claiming that an <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >executive order cutting federal funding<\/a> for NPR and PBS violates their constitutional right to free speech and the Public Broadcasting Act. The lawsuit contends that the order aims to punish NPR for content the President dislikes and suppress First Amendment rights. The lawsuit asserts that NPR and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/graham-npr-at-50-years-still-a-liberal-sandbox\/\" title=\"GRAHAM: ... At 50 Years: Still A Liberal Sandbox\">public radio stations<\/a> are entitled to taxpayer support, while opponents argue that NPR has the right to free speech but not to public funding.The order mandates that federal funding be stopped for NPR and PBS, insisting that taxpayer dollars should only support fair and unbiased news. The White House maintains that the President is using his authority to efficiently allocate taxpayer dollars, countering NPR&#8217;s claims of journalistic integrity by highlighting previous instances where NPR was accused of biased reporting. The article concludes that NPR&#8217;s expectation of entitlement to taxpayer money is seen as both absurd and unrealistic.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>NPR filed a delusional lawsuit on Tuesday against the Trump administration, arguing that it has a constitutional right to your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hate-being-spewed-in-the-name-of-patriotism-wapo-opinion-attacks-anthem-before-games-2\/\" title=\"\u2018Hate Being Spewed In The Name Of Patriotism\u2019: WaPo Opinion Attacks Anthem Before Games\">hard-earned money<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.dcd.280953\/gov.uscourts.dcd.280953.1.0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">suit<\/a>, brought by NPR and three Colorado-based public radio stations, alleges that Trump&rsquo;s executive order cutting federal funding to the left-wing NPR and PBS violates their right to free speech, as well as provisions of the Public Broadcasting Act. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The [Executive] Order&rsquo;s objectives could not be clearer: the Order aims to punish NPR for the content of news and other programming the President dislikes and chill the free exercise of First Amendment rights by NPR and individual public radios across the country,&rdquo; the suit states.<\/p>\n<p>But as Texas Rep. Brandon Gill <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RepBrandonGill\/status\/1927349890415235405\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">countered in a post<\/a> on X: &ldquo;NPR has a right to free speech. It doesn&rsquo;t have a right to our tax dollars.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Trump issued an <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RapidResponse47\/status\/1918134250236461197\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">executive order<\/a> earlier this month directing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to &ldquo;cease federal funding&rdquo; to NPR and PBS. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Americans have the right to expect that if their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/12-reasons-why-npr-and-pbs-deserved-to-be-defunded\/\" title=\"12 Reasons Why ... And PBS Deserved To Be Defunded\">tax dollars fund public broadcasting<\/a> at all, they fund only fair, accurate, unbiased, and nonpartisan news coverage,&rdquo; the order stated, with the White House adding that PBS and NPR &ldquo;receive millions from taxpayers to spread radical, woke propaganda disguised as &lsquo;news.&rsquo;&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;No media outlet has a constitutional right to taxpayer subsidies, and the Government is entitled to determine which categories of activities to subsidize,&rdquo; the order continues. <\/p>\n<p>But NPR argues that it <em>does<\/em> have a right to your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/government-unions-have-been-stealing-money-for-years-now-scotus-has-the-chance-to-intervene\/\" title=\"Government Unions Have Been Stealing Money For Years \u2014 Now, SCOTUS Has The Chance To Intervene\">hard-earned dollars<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The suit argues the order is unconstitutional and violates the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967. That law established the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) to &ldquo;&lsquo;facilitate the full development of public telecommunications in which programs of high quality&rsquo; and &lsquo;creativity&rsquo; will be &lsquo;obtained by diverse sources&rsquo;&rdquo; among other things. As stated in NPR&rsquo;s lawsuit, the act explains &ldquo;how the Corporation must allocate its general appropriation from Congress.&rdquo; Twenty-five percent of the appropriation goes toward public radio, while 75 percent goes to public television.<\/p>\n<p>According to the suit, &ldquo;Congress has appropriated $535 million in general funding for the Corporation for Fiscal Years 2025, 2026, and 2027,&rdquo; while NPR, in fiscal year 2024, spent roughly $11.1 million in total in grants from the CBP.<\/p>\n<p>Trump &ldquo;is exercising his lawful authority to limit funding to NPR and PBS,&rdquo; White House spokesman Harrison Fields <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2025\/05\/27\/npr-sues-trump-funding\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a> in a statement. &ldquo;The President was elected with a mandate to ensure efficient use of taxpayer dollars, and he will continue to use his lawful authority to achieve that objective.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Despite NPR&rsquo;s claim that it &ldquo;ensures the integrity and high standards of its journalism through multiple, rigorous safeguards,&rdquo; the outlet has a <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/05\/02\/here-are-12-reasons-why-npr-and-pbs-deserved-to-be-defunded\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">well-documented<\/a> history of pushing a leftist <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/03\/27\/10-times-npr-proved-it-doesnt-deserve-another-taxpayer-cent\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">agenda<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Notably, NPR refused to cover the Hunter Biden laptop scandal in the lead-up to the 2020 election.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We don&rsquo;t want to waste our time on stories that are not really stories, and we don&rsquo;t want to waste the listeners&rsquo; and readers&rsquo; time on stories that are just pure distractions,&rdquo; NPR Managing Editor for News Terence Samuel&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2020\/10\/22\/npr-says-they-wont-cover-the-hunter-biden-story-because-russia-and-it-doesnt-amount-to-much\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a>&nbsp;in a statement back in October 2020. A newsletter published by NPR Public Editor Kelly McBride claimed that &ldquo;there are many, many red flags in that New York Post investigation.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>As The Federalist&rsquo;s Assignment Editor <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/03\/27\/10-times-npr-proved-it-doesnt-deserve-another-taxpayer-cent\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Elle Purnell<\/a> noted, NPR &ldquo;falsely claimed demonstrators outside the White House were tear-gassed by U.S. Park Police&rdquo; in June 2020. &ldquo;Park Police Tear Gas Peaceful Protesters To Clear Way For Trump Church Photo-Op,&rdquo; one NPR headline stated. A Twitter post from NPR Politics similarly claimed: &ldquo;Police in Washington, D.C. used tear gas and rubber bullets on peaceful protesters to clear them away from St. John&rsquo;s Church, which suffered a small fire.&rdquo; (The &ldquo;small fire&rdquo; was apparently an act of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wusa9.com\/article\/news\/local\/dc\/atf-release-new-photos-of-suspects-linked-to-fire-st-johns-episcopal-church\/65-ba148d2b-1888-49f1-9c8d-5f9699bcfd8f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">arson<\/a>.)&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But the supposedly &ldquo;peaceful&rdquo; protesters actually threw &ldquo;projectiles including bricks, frozen water bottles and caustic liquids,&rdquo; according to acting Park Police Chief Gregory T. Monahan. Monahan also stated Park Police&nbsp;<em>did not<\/em>&nbsp;use tear gas but rather smoke canisters &mdash; which, as noted by Purnell, &ldquo;lack the irritant used in tear gas.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>In addition, NPR portrayed the Declaration of Independence as &ldquo;offensive&rdquo; on <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/LeilaFadel\/status\/1543911485465923585\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">multiple<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/07\/04\/733431874\/a-july-4-npr-tradition-a-reading-of-the-declaration-of-independence#:~:text=Editor%27s%20note%20on%20July%208%2C%202022%3A%20This%20story%20quotes%20the%20U.S.%20Declaration%20of%20Independence%20%E2%80%94%20a%20document%20that%20contains%20offensive%20language%20about%20Native%20Americans%2C%20including%20a%20racial%20slur.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">occasions<\/a>. &ldquo;This story quotes the U.S. Declaration of Independence &mdash; a document that contains offensive language about Native Americans, including a racial slur,&rdquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/07\/04\/733431874\/a-july-4-npr-tradition-a-reading-of-the-declaration-of-independence#:~:text=Editor%27s%20note%20on%20July%208%2C%202022%3A%20This%20story%20quotes%20the%20U.S.%20Declaration%20of%20Independence%20%E2%80%94%20a%20document%20that%20contains%20offensive%20language%20about%20Native%20Americans%2C%20including%20a%20racial%20slur.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">read<\/a> a July 8, 2022, &ldquo;Editor&rsquo;s note.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>NPR also apologized for calling illegal aliens &ldquo;illegal.&rdquo; &ldquo;Sorry, that was a mistake,&rdquo; NPR <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NPR\/status\/1144659017031135234\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a>, referencing a deleted tweet. &ldquo;NPR&rsquo;s policy is not to characterize people as &lsquo;illegal.&rsquo; We slip up from time to time, but we&rsquo;ll keep working hard to get it right.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The idea that NPR is entitled &mdash; via the Constitution &mdash; to your bank account is risible and delusional.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Brianna Lyman is an elections correspondent at The Federalist. Brianna graduated from Fordham University with a degree in International Political Economy. Her work has been featured on Newsmax, Fox News, Fox Business and RealClearPolitics. Follow Brianna on X: @briannalyman2<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NPR sued the Trump administration, claiming a right to funding<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":2439486,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/3298634599_d31bb06dea_k-e1748368679192.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[8062,6513,36829,16561,52259],"class_list":["post-2439485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-constitution","tag-funding","tag-media-accountability","tag-npr","tag-public-broadcasting"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/3298634599_d31bb06dea_k-e1748368679192.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2439485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2439485"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2439485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2439489,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2439485\/revisions\/2439489"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2439486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2439485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2439485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2439485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}