NPR Sues Trump Over Order Cutting Federal Funding

The order ‘violates due process, the Separation of Powers and the Spending Clause of the Constitution,’ the lawsuit says.

National Public Radio headquarters in Washington on March 26, 2025. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images

President Donald Trump’s order cutting funding for media outlets violates the U.S. Constitution, National Public Radio (NPR) said in a lawsuit filed on May 27.

Trump’s May 1 order directed the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a nonprofit established by Congress in 1967 to oversee taxpayer-funded broadcasters, to end direct funding for NPR and the Public Broadcasting Service, or PBS.