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As we covered yesterday, the July 4th release of a new report called “Saving America's Story,” documents in exhaustive detail what the Smithsonian's flagship history museum has become under ideologically captured leadership.
Imagine taking your family to the National Museum of American History — one of the most visited institutions in the world, funded greatly by taxpayers — and finding exhibits on drag queens and chest binders, but no major exhibit dedicated to George Washington. That is not a hypothetical. That is what a new White House report found.
There are no major exhibits on the Continental Congress, the American Revolution, or the Christian foundations that produced the Constitution. Flag Day and Independence Day programming was notably absent in 2025 and 2026 — during America's two hundred and fiftieth anniversary year. The founding era has been, in the report's words, “problematized,” with programming shifting away from anything that might be considered too focused on the American founding.
What visitors will find, however, tells the story about the museum's true priorities. There are exhibits featuring chest binders aimed at youth, presenting gender as fluid. Partnerships with organizations promoting Abolish ICE and citizenship for illegal immigrants. Anti-Second Amendment content tied to activist groups. DEI programming that classifies objectivity and individualism as white supremacy culture. And a collections plan that explicitly seeks to challenge what it calls traditionally exclusionary historical narratives.
One museum display even states that there is no single American culture, language, or narrative. This, in the National Museum of American History. Funded by your tax dollars. This is not scholarship. It is systematic erasure, the rewriting of history in own national museums thanks to Marxist bureaucrats. And all of this is largely being funded by the Americans it is designed to demoralize.
The White House is calling it out. Now Congress needs to act. The Smithsonian is not technically accountable to one part or piece of government. But as its primary funder, Congress should start with a serious look at whether a billion dollars a year in taxpayer funding should continue flowing to an institution that treats American history as something to be overcome rather than celebrated.
The cultural Marxist march through our institutions is still well underway. Stay informed, and engaged, and let us know what you think about this report on the Smithsonian museums at PhyllisSchlafly.com, again that’s PhyllisSchlafly.com, and join us again for the Phyllis Schlafly Report.
