The CEOs of NPR and PBS will testify at a DOGE subcommittee hearing on Wednesday, where they’ll be called to explain why U.S. taxpayers should continue to subsidize the demonstrably false and biased content produced by the two government-funded news entities.

Public news organizations were once needed to reach Americans in rural areas back when there were only a few sources of news, but that’s no longer the case, House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) explained this week in an interview with Fox Business.

“Over that time period, they went from being a somewhat fair and balanced news entity to being overwhelming liberal and bias and I would argue they even try to indoctrinate their listeners,” Comer said, discussing the need for the Delivering on Government Efficiency (DOGE) subcommittee hearing:

“So much of what they’ve reported just over the past four or five years is blatantly false and we’re going to have some of those articles and some of those stories that they’ve written that just are not true.

“And there’s no doubt today they’re not true. They never went back and recanted. So, we’ve got a lot of questions.”

“I think the American taxpayers are sick and tired of paying for liberal indoctrination from NPR,” Chairman Comer said.

At the hearing, titled “Anti-American Airwaves: Holding the heads of NPR and PBS Accountable,” National Public Radio CEO Katherine Maher and Public Broadcasting Service CEO Paula Kerger will be asked to “explain why the demonstrably biased news coverage they produce for an increasingly narrow and elitist audience should continue to be funded by the broad taxpaying public,” a House Oversight press release announcing the hearing says:

“Both organizations have repeatedly undermined the trust of Americans by ignoring stories that were damaging to the Biden Administration, dismissing calls to perform more balanced reporting, and continuing to pursue partisan coverage.”

“Now, it is time for their CEOs to publicly explain this biased coverage. Federal taxpayers should not be forced to pay for one-sided reporting, which attacks over half the country to protect and promote its own political interests,” DOGE Subcommittee Chairwoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) says in the release.

“I look forward to working with the Trump Administration to stop allowing the blatant misuse of taxpayer funds for partisan ends,” Chairwoman Greene says.

“Both organizations have repeatedly undermined the trust of Americans by ignoring stories that were damaging to the Biden Administration, dismissing calls to perform more balanced reporting, and continuing to pursue partisan coverage,” the DOGE subcommittee reported Wednesday in a social media post.

The House Oversight subcommittee was created to support the work of the Trump Administration’s Department of Government Efficiency (also dubbed DOGE), led by visionary technology entrepreneur Elon Musk.

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