Just when the Senate began to discuss the termination package that would strip the corporation for the public transmission of two years of funds, the Trump administration, the Trump administration filed a new demand Against the three members of the CPB Board to whom the president has tried to shoot, but has refused to leave.
The presentation of Tuesday, in the United States District Court in Washington, is the last volley in a legal fight between the administration and the entity that finances the Public Radio and Television stations of the Nation. It seeks to affirm Trump’s power to eliminate the members of the CPB Board: a power that the Corporation and the members of its Board insist that it does not have.
President Donald Trump attends the inaugural Energy and Innovation Summit of Pennsylvania at the Carnegie Mellon University campus in Pittsburgh, on July 15, 2025.
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“As the recent orders of the Supreme Court have recognized, the President cannot significantly exercise his Executive Power under article II of the Constitution without the power to select, and, when necessary, eliminate, those who have a federal position,” says the presentation of the administration. “The staff is political, after all.”
CPB and the members of its Board argue that although the president has the power to appoint the members of the Board of the organization, there is no provision in law that allows them to fire them.
-ABC News’ Steven Portnoy
