NPR urges its member stations to contact its members of Congress as the Trump administration increases its efforts to extract federal public transmission funds.
A memorandum sent on Monday was in response to the reports of the White House Plan to send its termination package to Capitol Hill this week and not so anticipated on April 28 and that a vote could be made the week of May 5.
“In preparation, we are uploading the deadlines for all the communications of the interested parties,” said the memorandum for the first time by The New York Times. “The NPR policy and representation team has written new templates for the activation of station and grasstops. With their station and ask them to communicate with the Congress of their opposition to termination and support for their station. “
NPR asked their stations to inform the national headquarters when there are letters to legislators and if the stations receive answers.
“We are coordinating with Protect My public media and we will provide more details about the activation of PMM defenders. The air scripts are currently Avios to the PMPM partners portal, if you want to start remembering messages.
“We urge you to communicate and meet its members of Congress this week, since they are still in the current recess of their district,” the memorandum continued.
NPR did not respond immediately to the request for comments from Fox News Digital.
Earlier this month, President Donald Trump’s budget director Russ Vought wrote a memorandum asking the legislators of the Republican Party to reduce $ 1.1 billion that was assigned to the Corporation for Public Transmission (CPB), as well as $ 8.3 billion in experience.
“From the first day, the Trump administration has directed the waste, fraud and abuse in federal expenditure through executive action, the revision of duxes and other efforts by the departments and agencies. COVES has expressed strong strong strong strong strong strong strong, Yyyyyyy Inds,” Voucht wrote in the memorandum.
The memorandum continued: “OB recommends that the Administration respond with two proposals to reduce $ 9.3 billion. The first includes a termination of $ 8.3 billion in expenditure expenditures wasteful (of $ 22 billion) that does not expire in the fiscal year (FY) 2025. The second is a separate termination of all federal funds for the corporation for the public transmission (CPB), that the funds of funds of funds are a resci separately.
In March, the CEO of the NPR, Katherine Maher, and the CEO of PBS, Paula Kerger, testified before the Doge subcommittee of the Degs Chamber and were interrogated by republican legislators about alleged political prejudices while the media executives defended their federal funds.
Responding to Voucht memorandum, Kerger suffered the alarm on the negative impact that would have in PBS losing federal funds
“The effort in progress to ensure that Congress terminated the financing of public media by interrupting the essential service that PBS and local member stations provide to the US people,” Kerger wrote in a statement shared with Fox News Digital.
“There is nothing more American than PBS, and our work is only possible because or the bipartisan support that we have always received from Congress. This public-private association allows us to help prepare millions of children and alive and alses de Alhilden and Alhildren and Als Alhilden and Als Alhildren and Alsoverren and Alhildren and the highest quality programs,” he continued. “To terminate these funds would devastate the member stations of PBS and the essential role they play in the communities, particularly rural and smaller and rural stations that depend on federal funds for a larger part of their budgets. Without PBS members, Americans will lose local local and emergency services unique in times of crisis.”
Kerger added: “We are proud to highlight real problems, individuals and places that would be ignored by commercial media. We hope to demonstrate our value for Congress, as we have done in the last 50 years, to Ameran, Yyyy at the service, and at the service of our Evererge, and the Amer Viter.