# 2025-08133: Government Cuts Tax Dollars to 'Biased' Public Media Giants NPR PBS

2025-08133, Ending Taxpayer Subsidization of Biased Media, is a Federal Register presidential document from Executive Office of the President published 2025-05-07, effective 2025-06-30; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-11-04).

- Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-08133
- As of: 2026-11-04
- Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts.

## Facts
- Document number: 2025-08133
- Title: Ending Taxpayer Subsidization of Biased Media
- Type: Presidential Document
- Agencies: Executive Office of the President
- Citation: 90 FR 19415
- Published: 2025-05-07
- Effective: 2025-06-30
- Comments close: not stated
- Significant: no
- Touches household money: yes
- Regulation identifier numbers: none
- Last updated: 2026-11-04

## In one line

Government Cuts Tax Dollars to 'Biased' Public Media Giants NPR PBS

## Summary

Starting soon, the government will stop giving taxpayer money to NPR and PBS because they’re seen as biased. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting must end all funding by June 30, 2025, making sure no federal funds support these outlets directly or indirectly. This change affects public radio and TV stations and aims to keep your tax dollars from backing one-sided news.

## Effects PRIA read

- Federal Funding Cut for NPR/PBS: benefit, medium. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) is ordered to cease direct federal funding to National Public Radio (NPR) and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). The CPB Board must cancel existing direct funding to the maximum extent allowed by law and decline future funding; this Executive Order…
- Ban on Indirect Funding via Licensees: cost, medium. The CPB Board must stop indirect funding to NPR and PBS by ensuring public radio and television licensees, permittees, and other CPB fund recipients do not use Federal funds for NPR or PBS. The CPB Board must revise the 2025 Television and Radio Community Service Grants provisions to prohibit direc…
- Federal Agencies Must End NPR/PBS Funding: benefit, medium. Heads of all executive departments and agencies must identify and terminate, to the maximum extent consistent with law, any direct or indirect Federal funding of NPR and PBS. After that, agencies must identify remaining grants, contracts, or other funding instruments with NPR or PBS and determine c…
- HHS Review for Employment Discrimination: mixed, low. The Secretary of Health and Human Services must determine whether PBS and NPR (or any successor organization) comply with statutory employment nondiscrimination requirements (47 U.S.C. 397(15), 398(b)) and take appropriate corrective action if they are not in compliance.

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## Sources
- [2025-08133 on federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/05/07/2025-08133/ending-taxpayer-subsidization-of-biased-media)
- [2025-08133 as published (PDF)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-05-07/pdf/2025-08133.pdf)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-08133 (as of 2026-11-04).