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The bill pivots federal museum content toward an uplifting, patriotic narrative—potentially increasing patriotic education for visitors—while narrowing critical historical scholarship, excluding transgender narratives, and centralizing politically driven removal authority that could politicize curation and prompt legal challenges.
Students, school groups, and everyday visitors (including middle-class families) will see federal historic sites and Smithsonian programming that emphasize uplifting national heritage and patriotic narratives, potentially increasing engagement and patriotically framed education.
Students, museum visitors, and scholars will have reduced access to critical, scholarly perspectives on U.S. history because funding and exhibit rules constrain content that examines oppression or systemic harms, narrowing public historical understanding.
Transgender women and the communities that include them will be excluded or silenced at the American Women's History Museum because the bill prohibits recognizing transgender women or gender-affirming medicine in museum narratives.
Museum staff, federal institutions, and state/local governments may face politicization and legal disputes because the Vice President can direct removal of items labeled as 'dividing Americans based on race,' concentrating curatorial decisions in a political office.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Directs the Vice President and federal agencies to promote positive, non-divisive narratives at federal historic sites and Smithsonian museums and seek removal or bar funding for exhibits deemed to divide Americans by race.
Introduced July 23, 2025 by Keith Self · Last progress July 23, 2025
Directs the Vice President and federal agencies to promote a single, positive narrative at federal historic sites and Smithsonian museums, discourage or remove exhibits and programs judged to be divisive or to emphasize race as a social construct, and push Congress to bar future Smithsonian spending on exhibits or programs the measure describes as degrading shared American values. The measure is primarily a set of findings and policy directives rather than a law that creates new crimes, funding, or specific statutory changes, but it calls on the Vice President, OMB, and Interior to use their roles to influence exhibit content, removals, and future appropriations.