National Public Radio CEO Katherine Maher expressed contrition for old tweets labeling Donald Trump a “deranged racist” and a “fascist” as she testified Wednesday before the House committee considering yanking NPR’s federal funding.

“Let me ask you,” said Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., “why did you call President Trump a fascist and a deranged racist sociopath in 2020?”

Maher told Burchett she was eager to address the old posts.

“I regret those tweets,” the NPR chief executive told the congressman. “I would not tweet them again today. They represented a time where I was reflecting on something that I believe the president had said, rather than who he is. I don’t presume that anyone is a racist.”

Maher was scrutinized for the old tweets months into her NPR tenure.

In 2018, she tweeted, “Also, Donald Trump is a racist.”

The tweet has since been deleted.

An NPR spokesperson told The New York Times that Maher was not in the news industry when she posted the tweets and was exercising her First Amendment rights.

Maher was testifying Wednesday before the House Committee on Oversight & Accountability’s Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency as the panel considers cutting funding to both NPR and PBS.

On Tuesday, Trump said he supported pulling the organizations’ funding.

“Well, I would love to do that,” Trump said.

“I think it’s very unfair. It’s been very biased the whole group, I mean, the whole group of them. And frankly, there’s plenty of the media you have right now. There’s plenty of coverage…So the kind of money that’s being wasted, and it’s a very biased view, you know that better than anybody, and I’d be honored to see it.”

Alabama U.S. Rep. Dale Strong, R-Monrovia, introduced legislation in February to defund NPR, claiming the nonprofit media organization is “nothing more than a mouthpiece for the far left, serving as an extension of the Democratic Party’s communication arm.”