The state representative and former house minority leader who headlined the launch event of a Biden administration-funded censorship and indoctrination program is now disavowing the project after an MRC exposè on the subject.
Rhode Island Rep. Brian Newberry (R) once supported a so-called “media literacy” initiative created with over $700,000 from President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and initially developed by Biden’s Department of State. Now, the Rhode Island Center for Freedom & Prosperity has revealed that Newberry is calling for government officials to abandon the scandal-plagued program.
In a January 2024 report, the MRC exposed how the Biden administration used taxpayer money from the DHS’s Targeted Violence & Terrorism Prevention (TVTP) grant program to push censorship and leftist activism. The effort, titled…
