Trump orders warning signs outside Smithsonian
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In a House DOGE subcommittee hearing, GOP representatives excoriated the director of the National Museum of American History, following a White House report earlier this month that also criticized her.
The lawmakers called attacks on the museum “revisionist history” after a White House report accused it of “ideological capture.”
Documents sharpen a struggle over how to tell the nation’s story, whether Trump can dictate the contents of the congressionally chartered institution.
A House subcommittee questioned the director of the National Museum of American History after a scathing White House report characterized it as insufficiently patriotic.
Rep. Brandon Gill says Americans are "sick" of woke ideology at taxpayer-funded museums and praises Trump for confronting ideological bias head-on.
On Tuesday, a Republican-led House subcommittee met to examine the Smithsonian Institution and question individuals who lead or defend the nation’s most prominent museums.