The two public media entities have become frequent targets in the GOP's efforts to reduce government spending.

The leaders of the biggest public media networks in the United States defended their programming in a hearing on funding for public media, but NPR’s chief executive said the organization’s leadership acknowledged mistakes in its coverage of the Hunter Biden laptop story.

Republicans accused public media outlets NPR and PBS of bias at a House subcommittee hearing on Wednesday, while Democrats defended the organizations and criticized the event as a distraction from the ongoing controversy regarding the Trump administration's use of the Signal messaging app for the communication of sensitive information.