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  "description": "The tax-funded nonprofit objects to Trump’s influence on Board of Directors.",
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  "publishedAt": "2025-06-10T11:58:50.000Z",
  "site": "https://broadbandbreakfast.com",
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    "_Corporation for Public Broadcasting_",
    "_DOGE staffer_",
    "_steward [the] federal government’s investments in public broadcasting_",
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  "textContent": "WASHINGTON, June 9, 2025 – A federal District Court here Sunday denied a federally funded nonprofit a preliminary injunction, upholding the Trump Administration’s firing of three board members until the case proceeds.\n\nThe _Corporation for Public Broadcasting_ requested a temporary restraining order against the Defendants – including President **Donald Trump** and the Department of Government Efficiency – but has failed to prove that the emergency relief a temporary restraining order provides is necessary, U.S. District Court Judge **Randolph D. Moss** said in an opinion.\n\n_DOGE staffer_ and tech entrepreneur **Nate Cavanaugh** , who has been working with the Government Services Administration, emailed CPB board members**Laura G. Ross** , **Diane Kaplan** and **Tom Rothman** April 28, informing them that their positions at the CPB have been “terminated effective immediately.”\n\nThe next day, Cavanaugh emailed the other two board members, **Ruby Calvert** and **Liz Sembler** , asking to discuss with them how to involve DOGE with the CPB.\n\nWhile CPB board members are Presidential appointees, the corporation maintains that it is not within the Trump Administration’s powers to remove board members or control the nonprofit.\n\nThe CPB is a “private corporation funded by the American people,” created by Congress to “ _steward [the] federal government’s investments in public broadcasting_.” Despite being federally funded, the corporation’s “insulation from Government control or influence” was emphasized in its creation in 1967.\n\nOne reason Moss gave for denying immediate protections for the CPB is that the “plaintiffs do not request that the Court order the President to [reinstate Ross, Rothman and Kaplan].”\n\nIn a _press release_ yesterday, the CPB stated that they were taking “steps to affirm that [Ross, Rothman and Kaplan] remain, and shall continue to be directors of the Board of Corporation for Public Broadcasting.”",
  "title": "CPB Denied Temporary Restraining Order Against Trump",
  "updatedAt": "2026-03-11T03:28:04.819Z"
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