President-elect Donald Trump‘s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) could set its sights on government-funded media programs like National Public Radio (NPR), Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) said on Sunday.
Greene, who has been tasked with heading a new House Oversight subcommittee to work with DOGE leaders Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, mentioned the network while discussing how she believes wasteful spending is happening all over the U.S. government during a “Sunday Morning Futures” interview with Fox News host Maria Bartiromo.
“We will be looking at everything from government-funded media programs like NPR that spread nothing but Democrat propaganda,” Greene said, adding: “We will be going into grant programs that fund things like sex apps in Malaysia, toilets in Africa, all kinds of programs that don’t help the American people.”
.@RepMTG says one of the things DOGE will look at is “government-funded media programs like NPR that spread nothing but Democrat propaganda.”
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She continued: “I want to talk to the people at the Pentagon and ask them why they can’t find billions of dollars every single year and why they fail their audit, but not just that, Maria. I’d like to talk to the governors of sanctuary states and the mayors of sanctuary cities and have them come before our committee and explain why they deserve federal dollars if they’re going to harbor illegal criminal aliens in their states and their cities.”
In his first term, Trump proposed reining in funding for public media, but Congress did not take him up on the cuts. Earlier this year, while back on the campaign trail, Trump demanded that funding be cut from NPR after one of its editors accused the network of espousing left-wing bias. That editor, Uri Berliner, resigned a short time later.
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“NO MORE FUNDING FOR NPR, A TOTAL SCAM! EDITOR SAID THEY HAVE NO REPUBLICANS, AND IS ONLY USED TO ‘DAMAGE TRUMP.’ THEY ARE A LIBERAL DISINFORMATION MACHINE. NOT ONE DOLLAR!!!” Trump said in a post to Truth Social.
When NPR ditched Twitter (now X) last year after being slapped with labels linking it to the U.S. government, the network insisted it “receives less than 1 percent of its $300 million annual budget from the federally funded Corporation for Public Broadcasting.” Still, on its website, NPR says federal funding is “essential” and that ending it “would result in fewer programs, less journalism — especially local journalism — and eventually the loss of public radio stations, particularly in rural and economically distressed communities.”
In her Fox interview, Greene went on to say: “We’re going to look in every single aspect. And we don’t care about people’s feelings. We’re going to be searching for the facts, and we’re going to be verifying if this is worth spending the American people’s hard-earned tax dollars on.”