The Home DOGE Committee Is Setting Its Sights on NPR and PBS

• It is beginning to change into clear how Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene plans to make use of the DOGE subcommittee.
• She’s asking the CEOs of PBS and NPR to testify in a listening to in March.
• Greene says she needs the organizations to justify why they obtain public funds.

The Home DOGE subcommittee has discovered its first targets: NPR and PBS.

In letters despatched to each media organizations on Monday, Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene — the chairwoman of the Home Oversight Subcommittee on Delivering on Authorities Effectivity — requested that their CEOs testify earlier than a listening to on March 3 or 24.

Within the letters, the Georgia congresswoman accused each NPR and PBS of manufacturing “systemically biased” content material, pointing to NPR’s dealing with of the Hunter Biden laptop computer story and PBS’s reporting on a hand gesture that Elon Musk made at an inauguration day occasion.

“As a corporation that receives federal funds by way of its member stations, PBS ought to present reporting that serves your entire public, not only a slim slice of like-minded people and ideological curiosity teams,” Greene wrote within the letter to PBS.

In a press release on Monday, NPR mentioned that the group would “welcome the chance to debate the vital position of public media in delivering neutral, fact-based information and reporting to the American public.” PBS didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.

In response to NPR, the group receives lower than 1% of its annual finances from the federal authorities on common. PBS, in the meantime, will get 15% of its income from the federal government.

Individually, Federal Communications Fee Chair Brendan Carr launched an investigation into NPR and PBS over sponsorships.

The DOGE subcommittee, whereas meant to pursue related objectives to Musk’s DOGE crew within the govt department, is a separate entity — and it is prone to be a discussion board for televised clashes between Democrats and Republicans over the federal authorities.