Greg Casar used his questioning time to attack Donald Trump and Elon Musk by contrasting their behavior with PBS children’s characters.
Democratic Texas Rep. Greg Casar used his questioning time during a Wednesday House Oversight Subcommittee hearing to attack President Donald Trump and Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) head Elon Musk by contrasting their behavior with PBS children’s characters.
The hearing titled, “Anti-American Airwaves: Holding the Heads of NPR and PBS Accountable” featured NPR CEO Katherine Maher and PBS CEO Paula Kerger and was intended to focus on alleged bias at the publicly-funded outlets. However, Casar evaded the committee’s intended focus and compared Trump and Musk to PBS children’s characters instead in an attempt to suggest the president and his adviser are corrupt.
“Mr. [Heritage Foundation senior fellow] Mike Gonzalez, you wrote the proposal to defund NPR, PBS and public broadcasting for Project 2025,” Casar said. “Can you answer a few questions for me? How many millions of dollars a month do taxpayers spend for Daniel Tiger to play golf?”
Gonzalez began to answer with confusion, before Casar cut him off.
“The answer is none. To your knowledge, has Miss Piggy ever been caught trying to funnel billions of dollars in government contracts to herself and to her companies?” Casar followed up.
Gonzalez described Casar’s analogy as “silly.
