Dear MoveOn member,
Donald Trump and Elon Musk are closer than ever to shutting down NPR and PBS.
Trump has explicitly called for NPR to be defunded, calling it "a liberal disinformation machine."1 Musk has listed NPR and PBS funding as part of the sweeping cuts he's attempting through his so-called "Department of Government Efficiency."2
Trump's FCC head has launched a politically motivated investigation into NPR and PBS—a move designed to manufacture an excuse to revoke their broadcast licenses or, at a bare minimum, cripple their funding.3
And in a late Friday order, Trump notified NPR, along with The New York Times, NBC News, and Politico, that they would be expelled from their dedicated office space at the Pentagon. They are being replaced by the right-wing sites Breitbart News and One America News, which have repeatedly spread conspiracy theories and disinformation.4
We need your help to raise a ruckus, urgently, loudly, and powerfully, to save NPR and PBS.
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Public media leaders are warning that if cuts to public broadcasting go through, many NPR and PBS stations won't survive. And that means an end to a huge amount of independent journalism in this country.
If that were to happen, some Americans—particularly those in rural areas—could lose access to all of these:
Trump isn't the first president to try to cut NPR and PBS. Republicans have been trying to cut funding for decades. We've stopped them before, which means we can win this fight.
But right now, the threat is greater than ever. The risks to public broadcasting are higher than they've been in decades, and we must pull out all the stops to save NPR and PBS.
Please: Start a monthly donation to power and sustain our emergency efforts to stop Trump's attacks on NPR and PBS!
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We're up against a coordinated MAGA war on public media, and everything is moving quickly.
They're trying to overwhelm us and ram this through. We need to spring into action and push back hard. Right now.
Will you start a monthly donation and fund our emergency efforts to protect NPR and PBS from Trump's attacks?
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Thanks for all you do.
–Alexis, Amandah B., Saskia, Emily, and the rest of the team
Sources:
1. "FCC Probing NPR, PBS on Possible Ad Ban Violation," Broadband Breakfast, January 31, 2025
https://act.moveon.org/go/202003?t=32&akid=423940%2E40999114%2EUjCFFZ
2. Ibid.
3. "Trump's FCC chief opens investigation into NPR and PBS," WHYY, January 30, 2025
https://act.moveon.org/go/202004?t=34&akid=423940%2E40999114%2EUjCFFZ
4. "Trump Administration to Remove 4 Major News Outlets From Pentagon Office Space," The New York Times, February 1, 2025
https://act.moveon.org/go/202013?t=36&akid=423940%2E40999114%2EUjCFFZ
5. "New Report Shows Significance of Public Radio in Rural America," NPR, October 11, 2022
https://act.moveon.org/go/202535?t=38&akid=423940%2E40999114%2EUjCFFZ
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