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The new House subcommittee designed to complement the work of Elon Musk has named its first target: the nonprofit news media.<\/p>\n

The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee\u2019s \u201cDelivering on Government Efficiency\u201d Subcommittee \u2014 or DOGE, mimicking its Musk-run analogue, the Department of Government Efficiency \u2014 is asking the leaders of PBS and NPR to testify next month.<\/p>\n

DOGE Subcommittee Chair Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Georgia Republican, put out the request to the executives in a letter Monday morning, specifying a preference for the weeks of March 3 or March 24.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs an organization that receives federal funds, both directly and indirectly through its member stations, NPR\u2019s reporting should serve the entire public, not just a narrow slice of likeminded individuals and ideological interest groups,\u201d Greene wrote in her Monday letter sent to NPR CEO Katherine Maher, with nearly identical language sent to PBS.<\/p>\n

Greene\u2019s letter to Maher<\/a> specifically cited the network’s decision not to report on the Hunter Biden laptop scandal in October 2020 and the April 2024 essay from former NPR editor Uri Berliner alleging systemic liberal bias across the company.<\/p>\n

In her letter to PBS CEO Paula Kerger<\/a>, Greene pointed to PBS reporting last month saying the billionaire and DOGE co-founder Musk “gave what appeared to be a fascist salute\u201d at President Donald Trump\u2019s inauguration celebration \u2014 a characterization that Greene alleges “was clearly false.”<\/p>\n

The fight over funding for public broadcasting is nearly as old as the system itself<\/a> and largely falls along party lines, with conservative budget hawks calling for elimination of federal support and Democrats backing the free news services that reach millions across the country.<\/p>\n

Federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting totals around $535 million, with federal dollars for CPB making up about 15 percent of public television and 10 percent of radio broadcasting funding.<\/p>\n

\u201cDuring the 119th Congress, the DOGE Subcommittee is committed to investigating the activities of PBS and NPR and assessing the value of continued federal funding of these entities,\u201d according to a press release announcing the panel\u2019s plans.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The new House subcommittee designed to complement the work of Elon Musk has named its first target: the nonprofit news media. The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee\u2019s \u201cDelivering on Government Efficiency\u201d Subcommittee \u2014 or DOGE, mimicking its Musk-run analogue, the Department of Government Efficiency \u2014 is asking the leaders of PBS and NPR to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}