Trump administration sues CPB board members in latest attempt to force their ouster

Source: ABC News

July 16, 2025, 10:23 AM


Just as the Senate began debate on the rescissions package that would strip the Corporation for Public Broadcasting of two years' worth of its funding, the Trump administration filed a new lawsuit against the three CPB board members whom the president has attempted to fire but have refused to leave.

Tuesday's filing, in US District Court in Washington, is the latest volley in a monthslong legal fight between the administration and the entity that funds the nation's public radio and television stations. It seeks to affirm President Donald Trump's power to remove members of the CPB board -- a power the corporation and its board members insist he doesn't have.

"As recent Supreme Court orders have recognized, the President cannot meaningfully exercise his executive power under Article II of the Constitution without the power to select -- and, when necessary, remove -- those who hold federal office," the administration's filing says. "Personnel is policy, after all."

CPB and its board members argue that while the president has the power to appoint the organization's board members, there is no provision in the law that allows Trump to fire them.

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