DOGE goes to war on NPR and PBS by threatening to cut government funding

The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) subcommittee announced that it is going to warfare with National Public Radio (NPR) and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)

In 2 letters sent to the CEOs of the outlets - Katherine Maher and Paula Kerger - Marjorie Taylor Greene, the DOGE subcommittee chair, called connected them to attest connected Capitol Hill to support the authorities backing they usage to stock 'systematically biased content.'

Greene said that the section plans to code its concerns astir the station's 'blatantly ideological and partisan coverage' astatine the hearing, scheduled for either the week of March 3 oregon March 24. 

In each letter, the subcommittee gave examples of 'bias' reporting done by some NPR and PBS against Elon Musk - the caput of DOGE - and cited NPR's determination to not study connected Hunter Biden's laptop scandal. 

In the 1 sent to Kerger, the subcommittee said: 'Recently PBS implied that Mr. Elon Musk made a fascist salute portion addressing an inaugural solemnisation hours aft President Donald Trump was sworn into office,' referring to the Tesla CEO's manus motion that's sparked large contention online. 

'The characterization was intelligibly false,' it continued, turning to a connection made by the Anti-Defamation League that said Musk 'made an awkward motion successful a infinitesimal of enthusiasm, not a Nazi salute.' 

The missive sent to Maher cited NPR's determination to not study connected a laptop belonging to the erstwhile president's son, which contained information critics assertion implicates members of the Biden family successful a corruption scandal. 

The subcommittee past cited a connection made by NPR successful October 2020 successful respect to the laptop, stating: 'We don't privation to discarded our clip connected stories that are not truly stories, and we don't privation to discarded the listeners' and readers' clip connected stories that are conscionable axenic distractions.' 

The subcommittee besides cited a scathing effort penned by Uri Berliner, erstwhile elder concern exertion for NPR. 

Berliner worked for the outlet from 1999 until April 2024, arsenic helium blasted NPR for its far-left governmental bias, portion besides referring to the outlet arsenic 'an assembly line.' 

'There’s an unspoken statement astir the stories we should prosecute and however they should beryllium framed,' Berliner wrote astatine the time. 

'It’s frictionless—one communicative aft different astir instances of expected racism, transphobia, signs of the clime apocalypse, Israel doing thing bad, and the dire menace of Republican policies. It’s astir similar an assembly line.' 

DOGE besides noted a connection Maher made successful 2022 astatine a TED Talk, erstwhile she was the CEO of Wikipedia. 

At the clip she said that 'our reverence for the information mightiness beryllium a distraction that is getting successful the mode of uncovering communal ground.' 

In each letter, the subcommittee said that its extremity for calling the CEO's to attest is truthful the section tin 'better understand' their practices portion 'providing Americans with close information.' 

'As stewards of taxation dollars, NPR and PBS indispensable supply nonsubjective and close sum that serves each Americans,' the Oversight Committee said successful a station to X  announcing the department's decision. 

PBS told DailyMail.com they are 'grateful to person bipartisan enactment successful Congress, and our country.' 

'We’ve earned this enactment from decades of noncommercial and nonpartisan enactment successful section communities: providing each Americans with contented they trust; offering a wide scope of stories and programs that assistance citizens recognize our past and signifier our future; and helping children and families unfastened up worlds of possibilities done acquisition programming. 

'We admit the accidental to contiguous to the committee however now, much than ever, the work PBS provides matters for our nation.' 

 DailyMail.com contacted NPR for comment. 

This is conscionable 1 of the galore moves that person been made nether Trump's medication and nether DOGE. 

On Monday, staffers who enactment for the Agency for International Development (USAID) were instructed to enactment retired of the agency's DC office aft Musk announced that the president had agreed with him to unopen it down. 

The billionaire 'first buddy,' who is starring a civilian reappraisal of the national authorities done the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has claimed the bureau is simply a 'criminal organization.'

'It became evident that it's not an pome with a worm successful it,' Musk said successful a unrecorded league connected X Spaces aboriginal Monday. 'What we person is conscionable a shot of worms. You’ve got to fundamentally get escaped of the full thing. It’s beyond repair.'

'We’re shutting it down.'

USAID, whose website vanished Saturday without explanation, administers billions of dollars successful humanitarian, improvement and information programs successful astir 120 countries.

It was established successful 1961 nether president John F Kennedy to 'lead US efforts to alleviate poverty, disease, and humanitarian need, and assists U.S. commercialized interests by supporting processing countries’ economical maturation and gathering countries’ capableness to enactment successful satellite trade,' according to the Congressional Research Service (CRS).

The assistance agency, which managed implicit $40million successful 2023, employs implicit 10,000 radical - with astir two-thirds serving overseas.

The countries who received the astir USAID-managed funds successful 2023 were Ukraine, Ethiopia, Jordan, Democratic Republic of Congo, Somalia, Yemen, Afghanistan, Nigeria, South Sudan, and Syria.

USAID's biggest backing sectors person been related to wellness since the 1990s, with the bureau donating billions to combat HIV/AIDS astir the world.