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. And that is to tell the truth about the American story, and to tell about the exceptionalism of this country and its people.” In March 2025, President Donald Trump signed an executive order titled Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History.