CPB is the non-profit corporation which funds NPR and PBS.
“CPB is not a federal executive agency subject to the President’s authority,” Patricia Harrison, president and CEO of the CPB, said in a statement Friday. “Congress directly authorized and funded CPB to be a private nonprofit corporation wholly independent of the federal government.”
She continued, “In creating CPB, Congress expressly forbade ‘any department, agency, officer, or employee of the United States to exercise any direction, supervision, or control over educational television or radio broadcasting, or over [CPB] or any of its grantees or contractors.’”
The title is based on the wording of the executive order that Trump signed. The title says “Trump signed executive order to cut funding from NPR and PBS”. The executive order says “I therefore instruct the CPB Board of Directors (CPB Board) and all executive departments and agencies (agencies) to cease Federal funding for NPR and PBS.”
Whether the executive order is legally valid does not change what the executive order says. Many of the other executive orders that Trump have signed are also not legally valid. The title accurately reflects what Trump signed.
Also we don’t know what happens next or whether PBS and NPR will have their funding cut. The administration which has deported legal US residents without due process isn’t operating within what is legal.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/05/ending-taxpayer-subsidization-of-biased-media/
https://archive.is/ZH2ps