• by Ray Schultz , November 18, 2025

National Public Radio (NPR) has reached a settlement with the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) that will provide NPR with $35.9 million in previously agreed-upon funds to be used for interconnection purposes. 

The deal effectively ends parts of a suit filed by NPR against CPB in May, seeking the funding authorized by Congress, according to a stipulation of dismissal submitted to the court.

NPR also sought relief from President Trump’s Executive Order 14290, entitled “Ending Taxpayer Subsidization of Biased Media.”  

This settlement can be viewed as a defeat for the White House. 

The Executive Order “purports to mandate that CPB cease direct and indirect funding to NPR, although CPB disputes that it is bound by the Executive Order,” the stipulation asserts. 

However, the stipulation says that CPB agrees it will not “implement or enforce the Executive Order unless and until it is ordered or required to do so by a court of competent jurisdiction.” 

The stipulation also acknowledges that “CPB has entered into a separate five-year grant agreement with Public Media Infrastructure (PMI) for public radio distribution." 

It continues, “For clarity, and consistent with this stipulation of dismissal, NPR hereby dismisses its request for an order enjoining CPB from disbursing federal funds previously appropriated by Congress for interconnection purposes to PMI pursuant to that separate grant agreement.” 

“CPB will remain a defendant in the action related to Plaintiffs’ claims for declaratory and injunctive relief barring implementation or enforcement of the Executive Order,” the stipulation adds.