Democrats mock efforts to defund PBS: ‘Are Bert and Ernie part of an extreme homosexual agenda?’

Democratic congressman Robert Garcia has mocked Republican efforts to defund the TV channel that airs Sesame Street, sarcastically asking if characters Bert and Ernie were “part of an extreme homosexual agenda”.

Garcia’s comments came at a congressional hearing on Wednesday (26 March) which heard a Republican-led case for defunding broadcasters the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) and National Public Radio (NPR), over alleged “bias” against conservatives.

During Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) hearing, PBS and NPR were accused of being “radical, left-wing echo chambers” with “anti-American” bias.

Committee chairwoman Marjorie Taylor Greene called for the channels to be stripped of public funding. “For far too long, federal taxpayers have been forced to fund biased news. This needs to come to an end. And it needs to

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