Shutting down PBS is appropriate, because it intentionally broadcasts content that is meant to divide the American people rather than giving data and information that is important for the pubic to know, Rep. Pete Sessions told Newsmax on Tuesday.

The Texas Republican, who is the DOGE caucus co-chair, told “Wake Up America” that “I have problems with the PBS and the political content that they dwell on. They dwell on issues and ideas that are meant to divide… the American people [and] don’t provide content in a proper context… they have content that opens up wounds rather than provides data and information.”

Sessions was discussing the growing pressures that Senate Republicans are facing to keep pace with a Friday deadline on approving the White House’s $9.4 billion in DOGE cuts by starting with a procedural vote Tuesday on the process.

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