Because the Smithsonian can receive private funding, it is not entirely in trouble-but the long-term effects remain unclear.

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order on the Smithsonian Institution that targets funding to programs that ...

Smithsonian Institution's leader reassures mission to preserve American history amidst Trump's executive order targeting ...

The Trump administration, however, is not happy with the way the Smithsonian Institution and other U.S. museums are portraying history. On March 27, 2025, the president issued an executive order, ...

The president’s executive order demanding change at the institution presents a perilous test for Lonnie G. Bunch III, its secretary, whom the White House calls a partisan Democrat. By Robin ...

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order designed to “eliminate improper, divisive, or anti-American ideology” ...

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump revealed his intentions to reshape the Smithsonian Institution with an executive order Thursday that targets funding to programs with “divisive narratives ...

Trump claimed there has been a “concerted and widespread” effort over the past decade to rewrite American history by replacing “objective facts” with a “distorted narrative by ideology rather than ...