William Brangham:
You’re right. Republicans have long argued that there is a liberal bias on public media, that conservative voices are excluded or marginalized.
The Trump administration makes that argument, and they also make the argument that, by covering issues like race in America, gender issues, LGBTQ issues, that public media is somehow on a campaign to change the culture of America.
Russell Vought, who is the current head of the Office of Management and Budget and was also a major author of Project 2025, here’s how he described it:
Russel Vought, Director, Office of Management and Budget: You have the $1 billion for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which is predominantly the NPR and PBS, which is giving us leftist news for decades and cultural indoctrination for the last four or five years.
