It says the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) is supposed to remain impartial and unbiased — and Trump argues that the CPB funding NPR and PBS at all violates that. “Which viewpoints NPR and PBS promote does not matter.

The order specifically instructs the Corporation For Public Broadcasting (CPB), an independent nonprofit created by congress to partially fund public broadcasters, per NPR, to “cease Federal funding for NPR and PBS” as well as root out any other sources of “indirect” funding.