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A federal judge ruled Trump’s attack on NPR and PBS unconstitutional. The First Amendment is clear: the government can't cut funding to a news organization simply because it dislikes their coverage. That is textbook viewpoint discrimination. The court called it out. But here is the hard truth.

Republicans in Congress separately voted to strip public broadcasting of its funding, and that damage is real. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which has kept local stations on the air for decades, is gone.