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Trump halts funding for NPR and PBS, citing 'partisan' and 'biased' news coverage

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President Donald Trump signed an executive order halting funding for NPR and PBS on Thursday .

The order cited the outlets' "biased" and "partisan" news coverage as the reason for the decision.

The White House said the outlets are "entities that receive tens of millions of dollars in taxpayer funds each year to spread radical, woke propaganda disguised as news" Both PBS and NPR responded to the executive order on Friday .