NPR is suing the Trump administration over President Donald Trump's Executive Order calling for NPR to be defunded. 

NPR CEO Katherine Maher claimed "The Executive Order is a clear violation of the Constitution and the First Amendment's protections for freedom of speech and association, and freedom of the press."

READ MORE: NPR and PBS Stations Sue Trump Administration for Cutting Their Federal Funding

Mommy Needs a Valium: NPR CEO Says Trump Defunding Order a Violation of First Amendment Rights

She went on PBS on Wednesday. She was asked by Geoff Bennett how the order was violating the First Amendment. Her answer was unintentionally more problematic. 

🚨NPR Chief Katherine Maher: Trump defunding Executive Order is “retaliation” — violates the First Amendment due to “viewpoint discrimination."

“We're a non-partisan news organization."

No one is buying that lie, no matter how many times they tell it. Defund. pic.twitter.com/FiYGst39TH

— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) May 29, 2025

She claimed that the executive order accuses them of not airing "fair or unbiased news." She claimed that was a "textbook example of viewpoint discrimination." 

So did I hear that right? Saying they are not fair is viewpoint discrimination? That surely sounds like what she just said. That might explain part of the reason they have a problem. 

Maher claimed the order was a "form of retaliation against our organizations for airing editorial programming that the president might disagree with," and claimed they were a "non-partisan news organization." 

"We seek to be able to provide a range of different viewpoints in terms of who we bring on air, the stories that we tell."

Bennett raised the claims of bias not only from Republicans but from former NPR editor, Uri Berliner. Berliner quit last year and blew the whistle on their "absence of viewpoint diversity" (although he was not for defunding).

READ MORE: Longtime NPR Editor Who Exposed Their Bias Resigns, Rips 'Divisive' New CEO on the Way Out the Door

Oh, can we forget about their hot take on why they didn't initially cover the Hunter Biden laptop story? 

Why haven't you seen any stories from NPR about the NY Post's Hunter Biden story? Read more in this week's newsletter➡️ https://t.co/CJesPgmGvo pic.twitter.com/jAi7PnpbZf

— NPR Public Editor (@NPRpubliceditor) October 22, 2020

They didn't just fail to cover it, they attacked the story itself. 

Maher now says that was a mistake. Meanwhile, they had no problem covering things like the Russia collusion nonsense. I think it's fair to say that people weren't buying this. Maher's claim got blasted into next week over it on X. 

Omg… non-partisan?? 😂😂😂 What a laugh.

— Juanita Broaddrick (@atensnut) May 29, 2025

NPR is entitled to all the FREE SPEECH they want. Just keep that speech FREE away from US taxpayer dollars. DEFUND NPR https://t.co/lzollNFJPZ

— LibertyLucy (@DeaconVick20978) May 29, 2025

I frankly don't see why we should be funding any domestic media outlet, even if they were in fact "non-partisan." People now have all kinds of access to news, they don't need a government organ to be feeding them any news. So I don't buy the argument that this is somehow needed because rural areas lack local news. But we especially don't need any outlet that may be biased, the American taxpayers shouldn't have to pay for that. 

NPR was mentioned as being in a new bill of DOGE recession cuts that will be coming to Congress next week. House Speaker Mike Johnson said they were very enthused about getting the package. 

Hopefully, the package will address this.