GOP’s New DOGE Subcommittee Promises Fireworks for Hearing With Heads of ‘Partisan’ PBS and NPR

Conservatives want to cut taxpayer funding to public broadcasters over what many insist are the outlets’ left-leaning bias.

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NPR's new chief executive, Katherine Maher, during a TED talk. TED

The heads of America’s best-known public broadcasters — PBS and National Public Radio — will appear on Capitol Hill Wednesday to answer charges from members of the House Department of Government Efficiency subcommittee that they are squandering taxpayer money on politically slanted programming.

The tone of the hearing can be clearly gleaned from the title chosen by the committee’s Republican managers: “Anti-American Airwaves: Holding the heads of NPR and PBS Accountable.”

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