Trump leaves Harvard without tax privileges and lowers federal financing to the NPR and PBS media

The President of the United States, Donald Trumpannounced this Friday that the Harvard University He will also lose his right not to pay taxes, in a new chapter of a political wrist that the Tycoon had already received to leave the aforementioned education center without federal funds in retaliation for protests against the massacre in the Gaza Strip.

“We are going to remove Harvard the tax exemption. It’s what they deserve!”Trump has declared social networks, without clarifying whether it is a decision that has already been adopted or a future assessment by the Internal Tax Service (IRS), depending on the treasury.

Harvard, who has achieved the support of more than 200 rectors in recent weeks, has challenged measures in the courts, such as the suspension of federal funds determined by the Trump government.

On the other hand, the Tycoon has signed an executive order for the federal financing for the NPR Public Radio And PBS Television NetworkTo which he has been accused for years of maintaining a left -wing bias.

“None of the two entities presents the contributing citizens an honest, accurate and impartial image of today”The president argued in the decree.

The order instructs the company for Public Radioice (CPB) to reduce the current NPR and PBS budget and to refuse any “future financing” for both stations.

The financing of NPR and PBS depends on the congress, so the decree could take on legal challenges, as happened with previous executive orders of the president.

Although federal funds represent about 1 % of the total budget of NPR, they are between 8 % and 10 % for their more than 1300 affiliated stations. In the case of PBS and the corresponding stations, approximately 15 % of the income from the CPB comes.

PBS focuses a large part of its programming about educational and documentary content, while NPR specializes in news and music, with popular formats such as ‘Tiny Desk’ concerts.

At the beginning of April, Trump publicly urged the Republicans in the congress to reduce the financing of these stations, which he described as “Radical Left Monsters”.

It is not Trump’s first attack on public media. In March he ordered the Closure of the United States Agency for Global Media (USAGM)What a break meant in the activities of the radio station of America and the dismissal of more than 1300 employees, who maintain a lawsuit in the courts.