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National Public Radio on Tuesday sued President Donald Trump over his executive order to cease all federal funding for the nonprofit broadcaster.

Trump’s May 1 order violates the First Amendment’s protections of speech and the press and steps on Congress’ authority, NPR and three other public radio stations wrote in the lawsuit filed in federal court in Washington, D.C.

NPR is suing the Trump Administration.

This is NPR CEO Katherine Maher.

Why are our tax dollars paying her salary and funding a propaganda arm of the Democrat Party? pic.twitter.com/rIrYfsfUWV

— Christian Collins (@CollinsforTX) May 27, 2025

The order “also threatens the existence of a public radio system that millions of Americans across the country rely on for vital news and information,” according to the legal complaint against Trump and a handful of top officials and federal agencies.