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BumRushDaShow

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Tue May 13, 2025, 06:21 AM May 13

Trump tried to fire Corporation for Public Broadcasting board members. Then came DOGE

Source: NPR

May 12, 2025 7:08 PM ET


Less than a day after President Trump attempted to fire three Corporation for Public Broadcasting board members last month, DOGE staffers also tried to assign a team to review its operations.

CPB leaders denied that request, citing federal law that establishes the independent nonprofit outside of the control of the federal government. The request comes as the president is launching a broad assault against the country's two largest public broadcasters. At the same time, the informal Department of Government Efficiency has sought to embed itself in numerous independent agencies Trump wants to shutter.

Those revelations come in court documents filed Friday in a lawsuit where CPB is challenging Trump's April 28 efforts to remove the board members, and after the president issued an executive order May 1 that also purports to end any federal funding to the Public Broadcasting Service and National Public Radio.

According to the filing, Nate Cavanaugh, a DOGE staffer with the General Services Administration sent an email addressed to the two board members not targeted by Trump asking for a meeting just before the initial court hearing in the CPB case. "I would like to learn more about the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and discuss getting a DOGE team assigned to the organization," Cavanaugh wrote in an email dated April 29.

Read more: https://www.npr.org/2025/05/12/nx-s1-5395978/doge-cpb-board-members-trump-lawsuit-npr-pbs



Link to SUIT (PDF viewer) - https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25939262-cpb-v-trump-reply-in-support-of-tro-motion-exhibit/

Link to SUIT (PDF) - https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25939262/cpb-v-trump-reply-in-support-of-tro-motion-exhibit.pdf
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Trump tried to fire Corporation for Public Broadcasting board members. Then came DOGE (Original Post) BumRushDaShow May 13 OP
They're INDEPENDENT dammit! no_hypocrisy May 13 #1
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no_hypocrisy

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1. They're INDEPENDENT dammit!
Tue May 13, 2025, 06:35 AM
May 13

Akin to DOGE wanting to examine the books of a private business, for example, The Trump Organization.

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