Democrat Texas Rep. Greg Cassal used questioning time during a House Observation Subcommittee hearing Wednesday to attack President Donald Trump and Head Elon Musk of the Government Efficiency Bureau (DOGE) by comparing it to a child character on PBS.
Hearing The title “Anti-American Radio: Holding the Head of NPR and PBS Responsibility,” features NPR CEO Katherine Maher and PBS CEO Paula Kerger, and aims to focus on suspicion of bias in published outlets. However, Casar avoided the intended focus of the committee and instead compared Trump and Musk to PBS’s child characters to suggest that the president and his advisors were corrupt. (Related: “I cleared most of the time”: Corporate Media defends Biden’s clarity when interview transcripts reveal a rise in memory)
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“Mr. [Heritage Foundation senior fellow] Mike Gonzalez, you wrote a proposal to refund NPR, PBS and public broadcasting for Project 2025,” Casar said. Do taxpayers spend millions of dollars a month on Daniel Tiger to play golf? ”
Before Casar could cut him off, Gonzalez began to respond in confusion.
“There’s no answer. As far as you know, has Miss Piggy got caught up in trying to leak billions of dollars in government contracts between herself and her company?” Casar followed up.
Gonzalez described Casar’s analogy as “silly.”
Kasar continued his analogy by comparing Trump’s taxpayer funds and alleged misuse of Musk’s actions with a child character.
“The answer is no. How about Arthur the Ardburk? Has he fired an independent government watchdog investigating his company? The answer is no. “Miss Piggy is focusing billions of dollars on government contracts, but Elon Musk has. Arthur has not fired an independent government watchdog investigating him and his company, but Elon Musk has fired at least five people.”
The Texas representative also criticized his Republican colleagues for using PBS and NPR as scapegoats, claiming they were distracted from what Trump and Musk viewed as a bigger issue involving them.
“So my Republican colleagues are dragging me into the scapegoat. This time, PBS and NPR try to distract me from the fact that Trump and Musk are taking away workers. “It’s a listener like you. That’s ridiculous. The total funding for public broadcasting is one-sixth of the amount Elon Musk’s companies leave the government each year, but I don’t see Elon Musk being burned by this committee.
PBS gets 16% of its money from the company for public broadcasting, NPR It has been reported.
“This is what we think we should have a hearing. After Trump and Musk took over the government, reporters realized that the State Department was trying to concentrate $400 million in taxpayer dollars on Tesla,” Kasar said. “The State Department said this is an old contract and not news here, but for the brave whistleblowers and NPR reporters, they exposed corruption and lies. Madame Speaker, if you want to look into waste, fraud and abuse, why not take a look?”
“Eron Musk, who runs the Cabinet Conference that runs the White House, was trying to focus his money on himself. So let’s stop investigating Cookie Monsters and start investigating how the Trump administration was trying to lie about this and focus his money on their biggest political supporters,” he continued. “Maybe you’re exposing this kind of corruption, so you’re trying to give back NPR. And if Republicans were serious about investigating waste, fraud, and abuse. My colleagues would admit that big birds aren’t the problem. Big technology is. Big pharmaceutical companies are big insurance companies.”
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