2025 was quite a year for the Smithsonian Institution, which found itself in the crosshairs of the second Trump administration early and often. Last year began with Trump calling for a purge of “anti-American ideology” from the institution’s 19 museums. 2026 appears to have brought more of the same.

On Thursday, the New York Times reported that the Trump Administration has redoubled its efforts to bring the Smithsonian to heel and has put forward a deadline of next Tuesday for it to comply with a comprehensive review of its content and plans. That is with an eye toward bringing it inline with Trump’s executive order issued last March, “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History.”