'Do You Think PBS Needs To Fund Ridiculous Materials Such As This?': Marjorie Taylor Greene To Exec

At today's House DOGE Committee hearing, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) confronted PBS CEO Paula Kerger over various documentaries.

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00:00Ms. Kerger, using taxpayer subsidies, PBS funded Independent Lens to make documentaries

00:05for part of your programming. In 2016, Real Boy was aired about a trans teen navigating

00:12adolescent sobriety and the ramification of his gender identity. In 2022, the same series aired

00:19Our League, in which a trans woman comes to her old school Ohio bowling league in a story about

00:25transition. Then in 2024, Erase This Trees was aired, telling a story of how in Palm Springs,

00:32a black neighborhood fights to remove a divisive wall of trees. Do you think PBS needs to fund

00:39ridiculous material such as this that the taxpayers are having to pay for?

00:45These are documentary films that are point of view pieces that are part of our primetime

00:49schedule for adults. And parents and adults don't trust that type of programming.

00:55Thank you, Madam Chair. I ask a unanimous consent.