At a House hearing probing why American taxpayers should have to fund the biased propaganda of her organization on Wednesday, National Public Radio (NPR) CEO Katherine Maher got called out by Rep. Brandon Gill (R-Texas) for making a false claim.
“Radical leftist @NPR CEO Katherine Maher claims she never read ‘The Case for Reparations’ Yet publicly tweeted about reading it. Was she lying then or is she lying now?” Rep. Gill asks in a social media post including a video clip of the exchange.
Rep. Gill was grilling the NPR CEO about a host of her past social media posts, which exhibited blatant political bias and voiced support for controversial, far-left views, when the subject of the book came up:
Rep. Gill: “Do you believe that America believes (sic) in black plunder and white democracy?”
NPR CEO Maher: “I don't believe that, sir.”
Rep. Gill: “You tweeted that in reference to a book you were reading at the time, apparently: ‘The Case for Reparations.’”
NPR CEO Maher: “I don't think I've ever read that book, sir.”
Rep. Gill: “You tweeted about it. You said you took a day off to fully read ‘The Case for Reparations.’ You put that on Twitter in January of 2020.”
Radical leftist @NPR CEO Katherine Maher claims she never read “The Case for Reparations”
— Congressman Brandon Gill (@RepBrandonGill) March 26, 2025
Yet publicly tweeted about reading it.
Was she lying then or is she lying now? pic.twitter.com/WXHPK5qmMY
In his post, Gill displays a screenshot of Maher’s tweet, in which she declares:
“‘America begins in black plunder and white democracy.’ I appreciate the day off today to finally fully read The Case for Reparations.”
At another point, Rep. Gill asked Maher “Do you think that white people should pay reparations?” And, again, after Maher’s denial, Gill quoted one of the NPR CEO’s tweets:
Rep. Gill: “Do you think that white people should pay reparations?”
NPR CEO Maher: “I have never said that, sir.”
Rep. Gill: “Yes, you did. You said it in January of 2020: You tweeted: ‘Yes, the north. Yes, all of us. Yes, America. Yes, our original collective sin and unpaid debt. Yes, reparations. Yes, on this day.’”
NPR CEO Maher: “I don’t believe that was a references to fiscal reparations, sir.”
Rep. Gill: “What kind of reparations was it a reference to?”
NPR CEO Maher: “I think it was just a reference to the idea that we all owe much to the people who came before us.”
Rep. Gill: “That’s a bizarre way to frame what you tweeted.”
Rep. Gill also asked Maher about other NPR propaganda, such as its “defense of looting” and the claim that “the fear of fatness is more harmful than actual fat.”
Watch Rep. Gill’s full questioning of the NPR CEO during the DOGE (Delivering on Government Efficiency) subcommittee hearing below.
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Old tweets come back to haunt NPR CEO…
GILL: Do you believe that America is addicted to white supremacy?
MAHER: I believe that I tweeted that and, as I've said earlier, I believe much of my thinking has evolved over the last half decade and has evolved…
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