The Smithsonian Institution is under pressure as House Republicans demand its leaders either steer the museum system away from leftist ideology or lose funding.
The institution receives private money, but it also gets approximately $1 billion in taxpayer money annually, and lawmakers are working to make sure it depicts American history accurately, Fox News reported Friday.
House Appropriations Committee member Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-GA) told the outlet:
The Smithsonian is accountable to the taxpayers. So defunding them in certain ways, or tying their funds to requirements, I think is probably the best way to ensure that we bring the Smithsonian back to its required mandate. And that is to tell...
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