President Donald Trump signed an executive order late Thursday instructing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to end taxpayer funding for PBS and NPR, the nation's two largest public broadcasters that long have been regarded as biased by conservatives.

The White House announced the executive order in a post on social media site X,  just weeks after Congress confronted executives of both broadcasters with evidence of political imbalance and liberal leanings in their coverage.

Trump "just signed an executive order ENDING the taxpayer subsidization of NPR and PBS — which receive millions from taxpayers to spread radical, woke propaganda disguised as 'news,'" the White House wrote.

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.

"Today the media landscape is filled with abundant, diverse, and innovative news options. Government funding of news media in this environment is not only outdated and unnecessary but corrosive to the appearance of journalistic independence," the order stated.

The order instructs CPB’s governing board to terminate direct funding for NPR and PBS to the “maximum extent allowed by law" and take steps to “minimize or eliminate” indirect funding to the outlets.