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From: Philanthropy Today
Subject: The ‘Nonprofit Killer Bill’ Is Gone … for Now
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NPR and three Colorado public radio stations have filed suit against the Trump administration, calling the withholding of federal support for the broadcasters “textbook retaliation” against news outlets that the president is critical of. “It is not always obvious when the government has acted with a retaliatory purpose in violation of the First Amendment. ‘But this wolf comes as a wolf,’” states the legal brief for the public broadcasters. The White House did not immediately comment. In his May 1 executive order barring the use of congressionally appropriated funds to support the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which distributes more than a half billion dollars to public radio and television stations each year, Trump wrote that “neither NPR nor PBS “presents a fair, accurate, or unbiased portrayal of current events to taxpaying citizens.” (NPR)
Law enforcement agencies and nonprofits across the country have lost an estimated 373 grants from the Department of Justice worth about $500 million. Prosecutors and police, who thought their work aligned with the Trump administration’s priorities, are puzzled by the cuts, and nonprofit groups say officials knew little about the programs, such as violence prevention, they targeted. A scholar who is about to release an assessment of violence prevention efforts said “he’s seen no sign that the administration sought out” solid research before ending the grants. In a statement, the Justice Department said, “discretionary funds that are not aligned with the administration’s priorities are subject to review and reallocation” and that it was open to appeals from the groups. (NPR)
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