President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday night axing taxpayer funding for “biased” news outlets NPR and PBS. “National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting Service receive taxpayer funds through the Corporation for Public Broadcasting,” the order says. “Unlike in 1967, when the CPB was established, today, the media landscape is filled with abundant, diverse, and innovative news options. Government funding of news media in this environment is not only outdated and unnecessary but corrosive to the appearance of journalistic independence.” Trump ordered the Corporation for Public Broadcasting board of directors and all executive departments and agencies to cease federal funding for NPR and PBS. At the end of March, Trump said National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting Service are a “waste of money” and that he would “be honored” to defund the taxpayer-funded networks. “It’s been very biased,” Trump said of NPR and PBS.  “They spend more money than any other network of its type ever conceived,” the president continued. “So, the kind of money that’s being wasted—and it’s a very biased view—you know that better than anybody; I’d be honored to see it end.” The White House released a list of examples of “radical, woke propaganda disguised as ‘news’” propagated by NPR and PBS: NPR apologized for calling illegal immigrants “illegal” in an X post. Sorry, that was a mistake. NPR's policy is not to characterize people as “illegal.” We slip up from time to time, but we'll keep working hard to get it right.— NPR (@NPR) June 28, 2019 NPR regularly promotes irreversible “transgender” procedures for children as “gender-affirming care” without referencing the long-term and harmful side effects of such medical and surgical interventions. NPR’s Ayesha Rascoe interviewed a transgender-identifying minor who goes by the name Nola Rhea about his decision to begin medically transitioning to appear as a girl at only 14 years old. In 2021, a New York PBS station aired a “children’s program” that featured a “drag queen” named “Lil’ Miss Hot Mess” promoting a book called “The Hips on the Drag Queen Go Swish, Swish, Swish.” An NPR reporter did an interview diving into the “connection between people who identify as genderqueer and dinosaurs.” Transgender author and science writer Riley Black told NPR, “There is a whole community of genderqueer dinosaur enthusiasts online.” NPR hosts Ben Brock Johnson and Amory Sivertson then explored what happens when you type “dinosaur” into the LGBTQ subreddit. “Hundreds of results, with pride dinos, rainbow dinos, dino moms, dino dads, and a lot of puns. Like, Ally-saurus,” Sivertson said. “Trans-ceratops,” Johnson added. The post Trump Signs Executive Order Defunding ‘Biased’ NPR, PBS appeared first on The Daily Signal.

President Trump said public funding of PBS and NPR is “outdated and unnecessary but corrosive to the appearance of journalistic independence.” Late Thursday, President Trump signed an Executive Order to stop taxpayer dollars from going to NPR and PBS, given their “biased and partisan news coverage.” The order directs the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) […] The post New! No More Tax Dollars Will Go to NPR and PBS Propagandists appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

Suspected MS-13 gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia — whose deportation to El Salvador by the Trump administration triggered a meltdown by Democrats — reportedly bragged he could kill his wife and get away with it. Garcia’s wife, Jennifer Vasquez Sura, wrote in an August 3, 2020 request for a motion for a protective order against him, “I also have a [recording] that [he] told my ex-mother-in-law that even if he kills me no one can do anything to him,” The New York Post reported. The document reportedly revolved around a fight over a phone Garcia took from her, during which he locked their children in their bedroom and locked her out of the house. “Me and my kids are afraid now. He kicked me, pushed me, slapped me in the face and threatened me,” she reportedly stated in the document. New bodycam footage has been released showing a Tennessee state trooper in 2022 stopping Garcia and openly suspecting him of human trafficking. The footage acquired by Fox News Digital revealed that when law enforcement stopped Garcia for speeding, he had eight people in the car. “You’ve got a bunch of people here, don’t you?” the trooper said to Garcia. “Where you workin’ at?” “St. Louis, Missouri,” Garcia answered. “Where do you live at?” the trooper asked. “I live in Maryland,” Garcia replied. “You know what you got here,” the trooper stated after the confrontation. “He’s hauling these people for money. You got an 8-hauler, is what he’s doing. … He’s getting paid to haul these people, probably to Maryland, I would say.” One of the officers stopping Garcia could be seen making a phone call; a source told Fox News that on the call, the officer spoke to someone at the FBI who advised police not to detain Garcia. The source also said officers spoke to ICE, but they never showed up. BREAKING: We just got our hands on the bodycam footage of the “Maryland dad.” Kilmar Abrego Garcia was a suspect in a human trafficking operation in 2022. WATCH WHAT HAPPENED… pic.twitter.com/Cot5ZHTUGz — Jesse Watters (@JesseBWatters) May 2, 2025   Attorney General Pam Bondi has said that multiple courts have concluded that Garcia was a member of the deadly MS-13 gang. “He was illegally in our country … and in 2019, two courts, an immigration court and an appellate immigration court, ruled that he was a member of MS-13,” Bondi said. “That’s up to El Salvador if they want to return him, that’s not up to us.” President of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, has said he will not release Garcia.

China is quietly exempting numerous U.S. imports from its retaliatory tariff on American goods, a sign that the Chinese economy is taking a hit in the trade war with the Trump administration, Bloomberg reported on Friday. A list circulating among businesses shows that 131 items, including pharmaceuticals and industrial chemicals, are not being slapped by China’s tariff as multiple companies have been able to get the products into China without paying a duty, according to Bloomberg. The unconfirmed list makes up 24% of Chinese imports from the United States, worth around $40 billion. The report comes shortly after U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said that China’s economy “is slowing down substantially,” adding, “They are the most unbalanced, imbalanced economy in the history of the world.” “We saw some very poor [gross domestic product] numbers out of China yesterday. We’re now seeing very large estimates of job growth loss from 5 to 10 million jobs,” Bessent told Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo on “Mornings with Maria” on Thursday. “So the Chinese economy is slowing down substantially here. So, what we will first want to see is a de-escalation.” Bessent added that the trade war is “not sustainable on the Chinese side.” China remained defiant as Trump raised the tariff on China to 145%. The communist country hit back at the United States with a 125% tariff on American goods, saying it won’t respond to “pressure, threats, and blackmail.” But just as President Donald Trump exempted electronics, such as smartphones, from an additional tariff on China, the Chinese government is seeking to soften the blow on its economy from its own tariff. The exemptions could also help ease tensions between the United States and China as the Trump administration continues to push for trade negotiations. President Trump said last month that China has reached out about trade talks “a number of times,” adding that even if a deal cannot be reached, the tariffs will work themselves out. However, the Chinese government said this week that the White House has reached out, “hoping to start talks with China.” “China is currently evaluating this,” the Chinese Commerce Ministry said, adding that it wants the United States to be open to completely removing its tariff on Chinese imports. “If the U.S. wants to talk, it should show its sincerity and be prepared to correct its wrong practices and cancel the unilateral tariffs,” the Chinese Commerce Ministry added.