NPR and PBS bigwigs were dragged before Congress this week.

The heads of these taxpayer-funded media organizations squirmed in their seats as they tried to explain why hardworking Americans should continue bankrolling their increasingly left-wing programming.

The House DOGE Subcommittee hearing turned into a full-blown roast when NPR’s Katherine Maher was forced to admit:

[H]er organization completely botched

the Hunter Biden laptop story.

Meanwhile, PBS chief Paula Kerger struggled to defend programming that Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene bluntly called:

[P]art of the trans child abuse industry.

Your tax dollars at work, Americans!

Following this disastrous hearing, Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-TX) is determined not to waste any time. He will be introducing legislation to completely defund these “chronically biased” outlets, which have been “pushing [Leftist] talking points under the fake banner of ‘public media.’” It’s about time somebody:

[S]tood up for the taxpayers who are footing

the bill for content that regularly mocks their values.

From Fox News:

‘They spend more money than any other network of its type ever conceived, so the kind of money that’s being wasted, and it’s a very biased view, you know that better than anybody,’ said Trump. ‘And I’d be honored to see it end.’

The most jaw-dropping moment of the hearing came when NPR CEO Katherine Maher had to confess that her organization completely mishandled the Hunter Biden laptop story. Acknowledging that NPR representatives publicly dismissed the story as unserious and a distraction at the time, she admitted:

We made a mistake.

She also expressed regret about her own past remarks calling President Donald Trump “a fascist and a deranged racist sociopath.” Nothing says “unbiased journalism” quite like your CEO calling a sitting president deranged, right?

DOGE Subcommittee Chair Marjorie Taylor Greene did not hold back, and declared after the testimonies:

[These outlets are] “out of touch with everyday Americans [and] the American people will not continue to allow such propaganda to be funded through the federal government with their hard-earned tax dollars.

PBS fared no better during the grilling. The public broadcaster came under intense scrutiny for programs like Real Boy, which follows a transgender character exploring sexuality:

[T]he kind of content many parents

don’t want their tax dollars funding.

Rep. Greene did not mince words:

[Bashing PBS as] one of the founders of the trans child abuse industry.

The Left tried to distract from the substantive criticisms by invoking children’s shows in their bizarre defense, with some even using the slogan “Fire Elon, Save Elmo”—as if Sesame Street is all PBS produces.

What the mentally ill Left conveniently ignore is while NPR receives about 1% of its budget from direct federal funding and PBS around 16%, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (which funds both) receives billions in taxpayer dollars. These figures mask the true impact of government funding, as the CPB directs over 70% of its money to local public media stations nationwide.

President Trump has already expressed openness to defunding these organizations, having said, he would be “honored to see it end.” Elon Musk, who heads up DOGE, has likewise called to defund NPR, posting a 2022 video of Maher saying, “Our reverence for the truth might have become a bit of a distraction.”

A distraction from what, exactly? Pushing a political agenda? When the head of a news organization suggests truth is getting in the way, taxpayers have every right to question why they are funding it.

As Rep. Jackson told Fox News Digital, though they were originally founded to produce non-biased, informational and educational content:

[NPR and PBS have] turned into taxpayer-

funded propaganda machines for the radical left.

The solution is simple: make them earn their keep in the marketplace of ideas. If their programming is as valuable and popular as they claim, surely PBS and NPR can survive on voluntary donations and corporate sponsorships rather than forcibly extracted tax dollars.