After a hearing by the DOGE Subcommittee, Rep. Ronny Jackson, R-Texas, is introducing a bill to pull government funding from NPR and PBS, which he says have been “pushing Democrat talking points."

Republicans accused the nation’s two largest public media networks of institutional bias. Democrats dismissed the hearing as an excuse for Republicans to air a familiar list of grievances against the news media.

Republicans accused public media outlets NPR and PBS of bias at a House subcommittee hearing on Wednesday, while Democrats defended the organizations and criticized the event as a distraction from the ongoing controversy regarding the Trump administration's use of the Signal messaging app for the communication of sensitive information.