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    Press Play with Madeleine Brand

    NPR, Colorado stations sue Trump administration over funding cuts

    NPR and three public radio stations in Colorado filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration today.

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    By Madeleine Brand • May 27, 2025 • 1 min read

    NPR and three public radio stations in Colorado filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration today. They argue the White House’s executive order calling on the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to cease federal funding to NPR and PBS is unconstitutional.

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    2. 10:46The Trump administration’s ‘war on knowledge’
    3. 22:10Overdose deaths are dropping in US, Trump wants to cut funding for Narcan
    4. 36:16Political, playful, absurdist: LA artists known as Asco
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    The full episode

    1 of 4
    NPR’s lawsuit against Trump, fentanyl deaths, Asco art collective
    1. 0:00NPR, Colorado stations sue Trump administration over funding cutsYou’re reading this
    2. 10:46The Trump administration’s ‘war on knowledge’
    3. 22:10Overdose deaths are dropping in US, Trump wants to cut funding for Narcan
    4. 36:16Political, playful, absurdist: LA artists known as Asco
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