Nearly half of registered voters oppose federal funding being cut from NPR, PBS: poll

Forty-nine percent of registered U.S. voters are opposed to federal funding being cut from the Public Broadcasting Service and National Public Radio, according to a new survey conducted by the Napolitan Institute. 

The survey also shows that 39% of the respondents are for cutting federal funding to broadcasters.

Thirty-three percent strongly oppose the cuts, while 23% strongly favor them, the survey also found.

Last month, President Donald Trump signed an executive order that instructed the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to end taxpayer funding for PBS and NPR, the nation's two largest public broadcasters.

The broadcasters have been regarded as biased by conservatives.

The president's order stated that NPR and PBS no longer served a meaningful purpose warranting taxpayer funding because there are so many private media choices in the digital era.

The survey was conducted among 1,000 registered voters between May 20-21 and had a margin of sampling error for the full sample of +/- 3.1 percentage points.