- It has begun to clearly how MP Margori Taylor Green is planning to use the DOGE sub -committee.
- She asks PBS and NPR executives to testify at a hearing in March.
- Green says she wants to justify organizations why they receive public funds.
House Doge’s sub -committee found its first goals: NPR and PBS.
In letters sent to both media organizations on Monday, Republican MP Margori Taylor Green, Chairman of the Sub -Committee for Supervision in the House of Representatives, requested that government competence to witness executives in a hearing on March 3 or 24.
In the messages, the Congress in Georgia accused NPR and PBS of producing “systematically biased” content, pointing to the NPR processing of Hunter Biden’s mobile story and PBS reports about an ELON Musk gesture at the day of the inauguration day.
“As an organization that receives federal funds through member stations, PBS must provide reports that serve the entire audience, not just a narrow segment of similar individuals in thinking and ideological interest groups,” Green wrote.
In a statement on Monday, NPR said that the organization “will welcome the opportunity to discuss the decisive role of the public media in providing neutral news based on facts and reports to the American public.”
“They appreciate the opportunity to provide a committee how now, more than ever, the PBS service provides things to our nation,” a PBS spokesman also said.
NPR She says she receives less than 1 % of her annual budget from the federal government on average. PbsMeanwhile, she says she gets 15 % of her government’s revenues.
Separately, the head of the Federal Communications Committee, Brendan Car, launched an investigation into NPR and PBS at care.
The DOGE sub -committee, although it aims to follow the goals similar to the Musk Doge team in the executive authority, is a separate entity – and it is likely to be a forum for the suspects between Democrats and Republicans on the federal government.
Later on Monday, Representative Melanie Stansbury from New Mexico – his democratic counterpart in Green in the sub -committee – criticized the speech sharply in a BI statement.
“Although the financing of public media has long been a target for the leaders of the Republican Party, we have not seen such flagrant attacks on the media and institutions as we have seen the last two weeks, including this effort to intimidate these public media as it is.
