The White House on Tuesday released a statement accusing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting of “creating media to support a particular political party on the taxpayers’ dime” after National Public Radio filed a lawsuit over federal funding restrictions.

NPR and several local radio stations filed a lawsuit Tuesday over Trump’s executive order ending federal funding for NPR and PBS, accusing him of violating the First Amendment.

“The Order’s objectives could not be clearer: the Order aims to punish NPR for the content of news and other programming the President dislikes and chill the free exercise of First Amendment rights by NPR and individual public radio stations across the country,” the complaint reads.

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