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Americans pay taxes to fund the Smithsonian Institution. What they may not know is that their money is being used to wage a deliberate ideological campaign against American history, American values, and the American way of life. A new White House report is calling it out — and the details are stunning.
Released on July 4th, the Domestic Policy Council's report titled “Saving America's Story” documents how the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History has been captured by radical ideology. The museum's own director has described history as a prime tool of social justice. The museum's mission statement has been rewritten to drop references to the richness of American history and replaced with language rooted in what the report identifies as intersectional critical theory — a Marxist framework that treats America's story not as a shared inheritance worth celebrating but as a political instrument for dividing the country.
The Smithsonian receives over one billion dollars in federal funding every year — more than sixty percent of its total budget. And yet under current leadership, it has systematically erased the Founders from its exhibits, embraced the 1619 Project's false reframing of American history, partnered with open-borders advocacy groups, promoted transgender ideology to children, and incorporated DEI standards that label objectivity and individualism as tools of white supremacy culture.
Heritage Foundation senior fellow Mike Gonzalez, who has studied this closely, describes it as the Marxist Left's long march through the institutions. Unable to achieve revolution through force, they captured culture — museums, education, media — to achieve their goals by other means. The Smithsonian, he says, is no longer transmitting American heritage to future generations. It is teaching Americans to be ashamed of it.
The White House report calls for concrete reform — restoring exhibits on the Founders and the Revolution, eliminating the Center for Restorative History, and refocusing the museum on a unifying national narrative. Congress should follow with serious oversight of the funding. A museum paid for by American taxpayers should tell America's story honestly — and proudly. Right now, the Smithsonian is doing the opposite.
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