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National Endowment of the Arts Chairman Responds to Trump's Proposal to Eliminate the NEA
Broadway World ^ | February 12, 2018 | BWW Newsdesk

Posted on 02/12/2018 3:16:48 PM PST by EdnaMode

Earlier today, the National Endowment of the Arts Chairman Jane Chu released the following statement regarding President Trump's budget plan for 2019.

Today we learned that the President's FY 2019 budget proposes elimination of the National Endowment for the Arts. We are disappointed because we see our funding actively making a difference with individuals in thousands of communities and in every Congressional District in the nation.

In FY 2018 to date, the NEA has awarded 1,134 grants totaling $26.68 million to organizations and individuals in all 50 states plus the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, launched a national songwriting competition for high school students, convened four summits across the country as part of Creative Forces: NEA Military Healing Arts Network, issued a research report on the economic impact of the arts in rural communities, and distributed emergency funding to arts agencies in Florida, Texas, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands, among other activities.

We understand that the President's budget request is a first step in a very long budget process. We stand ready to assist in that process as we continue to operate as usual.

As a federal government agency, the NEA cannot engage in advocacy, either directly or indirectly. We will, however, continue our practice of educating about the NEA's vital role in serving our nation's communities.

Established by Congress in 1965, the NEA is the independent federal agency whose funding and support gives Americans the opportunity to participate in the arts, exercise their imaginations, and develop their creative capacities. Through partnerships with state arts agencies, local leaders, other federal agencies, and the philanthropic sector, the NEA supports arts learning, affirms and celebrates America's rich and diverse cultural heritage, and extends its work to promote equal access to the arts in every community across America. Visit arts.gov to learn more about NEA.


TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Music/Entertainment; Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: 2019budget; broadband; continuingresolution; defundnpr; defundpbs; federalbudget; infrastructure; janechu; nea; npr; pbs; stimulus; thebudget; trump; trumpbudget
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To: EdnaMode

Remember the Getty Museum dissing Trump when he asked to borrow a painting?

They’re under NEA funding. So now that ahole who offere a toilet can now pound sand. I know Trump remembered that crap...


21 posted on 02/12/2018 3:36:34 PM PST by beergarden
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To: Bshaw

See my post 21. The Getty Museum. Under NEA funding. Close to my place by drive. Im sure Trump remembers a diss..


22 posted on 02/12/2018 3:37:31 PM PST by beergarden
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To: EdnaMode

This does not matter:

“In FY 2018 to date, the NEA has awarded 1,134 grants totaling $26.68 million to organizations and individuals in all 50 states plus the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, launched a national songwriting competition for high school students, convened four summits across the country as part of Creative Forces: NEA Military Healing Arts Network, issued a research report on the economic impact of the arts in rural communities, and distributed emergency funding to arts agencies in Florida, Texas, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands, among other activities.”

Why is all that irrelevant?

The American people, without direction from the federal government, acting as private individuals, private organizations, private institutions, private foundations and private corporations donate BILLIONS every year for “the arts”, in both direct general funding and grants.

What the American people do on their own voluntarily makes the NEA funding an insignificant drop in the bucket and not worthy of the political direction so much of the NEA funds take.


23 posted on 02/12/2018 3:38:41 PM PST by Wuli
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To: RegulatorCountry

Unfortunately, it will be funded in 2019. It is a tool of the degenerate left.


24 posted on 02/12/2018 3:39:40 PM PST by Vehmgericht ( stop)
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To: EdnaMode

Kinda weakened his case with, “...NEA’s vital role...” Not going to win this argument with that assertion.


25 posted on 02/12/2018 3:42:14 PM PST by Darteaus94025 (Can't have a Liberal without a Lie)
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To: Lurker
“In FY 2018 to date, the NEA has awarded 1,134 grants totaling $26.68 million”

So, since OCT 1... over 19 weeks... they're averaging 12 grants every single business day... 1.5 every hour... averaging $23,500 each...

Since 2000, they NEA has cost taxpayers $2.3 billion... I don't think we've seen $2.3 billion worth of increased artistry for the nation in that span.

26 posted on 02/12/2018 3:44:03 PM PST by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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To: RightGeek
Annual NEA budget $146,200,000 USD (2015)

If they handed out $26 million since OCT 1... in 19 of 52 weeks for FY 2018... that projects to $71 million for FY 2018... so... where does the other $75 million go????

27 posted on 02/12/2018 3:46:09 PM PST by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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To: EdnaMode
As a federal government agency, the NEA cannot engage in advocacy, either directly or indirectly. We will, however, continue our practice of educating about the NEA's vital role in serving our nation's communities.

So you admit that you're planning to violate that law with simple semantics. Nice.

28 posted on 02/12/2018 3:48:51 PM PST by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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To: EdnaMode

The NEA has to be disbanded for one reason, it practices religious discrimination. Religions need not apply. That builds into all NEA grants a pro-state bias.


29 posted on 02/12/2018 3:50:05 PM PST by Ge0ffrey
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To: Teacher317

How can we eliminate the National Endowment for the Arts? Its right there in the Constitution as a necessary part of our Federal government. Wait while I get my copy....


30 posted on 02/12/2018 3:51:14 PM PST by KC Burke (If all the world is a stage, I would like to request my lighting be adjusted.)
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To: EdnaMode

It will no more be eliminated from funding than the atrocious but popular Planned Parenthood.


31 posted on 02/12/2018 3:54:27 PM PST by Theodore R.
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To: EdnaMode

It’s the Piss Christ agency.


32 posted on 02/12/2018 3:54:37 PM PST by MarvinStinson
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To: KC Burke

It does speak somewhere of the “useful arts” in the Constitution.


33 posted on 02/12/2018 3:55:05 PM PST by Theodore R.
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To: AlaskaErik

Can the NEA criticize the two heinous “paintings” unveiled today of Obola and Michelle? Dare they criticize something that terrible, or will “that” set off their PBS-NEA wannabee’s in the elite set they adore?


34 posted on 02/12/2018 3:58:02 PM PST by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: EdnaMode

So we give them money so they can give it away to their liberal friends?

No thanks!


35 posted on 02/12/2018 3:59:23 PM PST by airborne (I don't always scream at the TV but when I do it's hockey playoffs season!)
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To: RegulatorCountry

Yes. “No chicken inside the henhouse was eaten by the fox.” (The dead birds inside the fox are no longer chickens, right? Depending on what your definition of “chicken” is.)

The live chickens still inside the henhouse are waiting until the 2020 budget.....


36 posted on 02/12/2018 4:00:42 PM PST by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: EdnaMode

Dump the NEA ..... Totally cut off all funding.

Same goes for PBS, NPR, etc.,


37 posted on 02/12/2018 4:01:48 PM PST by EnglishOnly (Fight all out to win OR get out now. .)
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To: EdnaMode
Just a few items from this March 2017 article and funded by taxpayers that won't be missed:

1. $495,000 to create medieval smells in a museum
2. $95,000 to adapt Shakespeare without words
3. $10,000 for a play about two anti-gun lesbians
4. $50,000 to help bring “Trans Scripts” to the theater; hundreds of thousands more to support LGBTQ issues
5. $20,000 to support a series of public art presentations “on the theme of climate change” in Minneapolis
6. $35,000 for “affordable housing and sustainable communities for San Francisco artists”
7. $100,000 in (quite literal) puppet projects
8. $845,000 to support film festivals that showcase movies with decapitated heads, public urination and sexual promiscuity
9. $6,000 to finance research that looks into the lives of pets in Victorian England
10. $20,000 for “Piss Christ” a photo of a small plastic crucifix submerged in the artist’s urine

38 posted on 02/12/2018 4:06:06 PM PST by Textide (Lord, grant that I may always be right, for thou knowest I am hard to turn. ~ Scotch-Irish prayer)
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To: EdnaMode

Handouts for lockstep liberal artists only. Many of which are already established in their fields.

And the ACLU is A-OK with the taxpayers funding ANTI-Christian artworks but Hell No to anything honoring Judeo-Christian traditions and beliefs like the 10 Commandments.


39 posted on 02/12/2018 4:08:59 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Ask a lib if Alger Hiss colluded with the Russians.)
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To: KC_Lion

I’ll bet that if Trump defunds the NEA, that Left-wing, nay Communist, artists would produce numerous art shows, exhibitions, open call competitions, and wheatposting graffiti posters decrying the Trump administration.

Where would they find the money to produce these works if the NEA is gone?

Psst, these artists would still produce these works and even find motivation to have them seen quickly.


40 posted on 02/12/2018 4:11:41 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Ask a lib if Alger Hiss colluded with the Russians.)
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