U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) spoke exclusively to The Tennessee Star’s CEO and editor-in-chief, Michael Patrick Leahy, on Wednesday about her new bill seeking to codify President Donald Trump’s executive order prohibiting federal funding for National Public Radio (NPR) and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS).
Blackburn’s FAIR Act would codify Trump’s “Ending Taxpayer Subsidization of Biased Media” executive order issued on May 1, which directs all federal funds issued via “grants, contracts, or other funding instruments” to NPR and PBS be identified and ceased by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) Board of Directors and all executive departments and agencies.
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