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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: Governor Dinwiddie

Well to be sure, FDR was funding agitprop artworks in the 30s and 40s via the NRA (not the rifle one).


41 posted on 02/12/2018 4:12:53 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Ask a lib if Alger Hiss colluded with the Russians.)
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To: Textide

Sarah Sanders oughta read off that list at the FIRST question about it in a briefing.
Won’t be for a while, though. The enemedia is still gaa-gaa over the whole black eye photo.


42 posted on 02/12/2018 4:17:52 PM PST by RandallFlagg (Vote for your guns!)
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To: EdnaMode

The US federal government has no Constitutional authority whatsoever related to the funding of “art.”


43 posted on 02/12/2018 4:34:14 PM PST by Arm_Bears (Hey, Rocky--Watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat!)
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To: EdnaMode

There is no Constitutional provision for taking my money and giving it to artists.


44 posted on 02/12/2018 4:44:43 PM PST by clee1 (We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and I'm tired of smiling.)
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To: EdnaMode

the NEA’s vital role in serving our nation’s communities....What IS that vital role?


45 posted on 02/12/2018 5:24:10 PM PST by Safetgiver (Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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To: EdnaMode

Glad to see that she could get her tongue freed up...


46 posted on 02/12/2018 5:26:30 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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To: EdnaMode
Let me guess ... abolish the NEA and the sky will fall, blood will run like rivers, and the world will come to a groaning, agonizing end.

How'd I do?

47 posted on 02/12/2018 5:27:30 PM PST by IronJack (A)
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To: IronJack

Nailed it!


48 posted on 02/12/2018 5:30:32 PM PST by EdnaMode
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Good question. They should!


49 posted on 02/12/2018 5:31:06 PM PST by EdnaMode
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To: EdnaMode

I have direct with I don’t know how many stations. Won’t miss PBS with BBC and british streaming.

So many radio choices on the computer it makes my head spin. Don’t need PBS radio.


50 posted on 02/12/2018 5:31:40 PM PST by morphing libertarian (Build Kate's Wall)
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To: EnglishOnly

Better dump your wine and cheese stock


51 posted on 02/12/2018 5:48:49 PM PST by hdstmf
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To: EdnaMode

Dumping the NEA and PBS is just a start. Here’s a complete list:

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/373441-the-federal-programs-trump-proposes-cutting-in-2019-budget


52 posted on 02/12/2018 6:36:16 PM PST by upchuck (Keep a sharp lookout. The best is yet to come.)
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To: EdnaMode

Have him contact the Clinton Global Crime Initiative Foundation, Warren Buffett, Steve Jobs, Tom Steyer, etc. for I’m sure they will more than willing to make up the shortfall.


53 posted on 02/12/2018 6:36:34 PM PST by RetiredTexasVet (Start using cash and checks or the elite class and bankers will make "cashless" the norm.)
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To: Safetgiver

NEA serves egos of the “Artsy-Fartsy” class.


54 posted on 02/12/2018 6:53:22 PM PST by hdstmf
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To: Theodore R.

Yeah, you’re reachin’.


55 posted on 02/12/2018 7:50:49 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

They can all go and post videos on YouTube. People apparently get rich doing that, because advertisers pay for eyeballs.


56 posted on 02/12/2018 8:13:51 PM PST by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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To: EdnaMode
The only one's who would "suffer" if we stopped funding PBS/NEA are those who have no other ambitions/skills to "earn" a living.

Let Capitalism decide if they are worthwhile ventures....

57 posted on 02/13/2018 3:20:34 AM PST by trebb (I stopped picking on the mentally ill hypocrites who pose as conservatives...;-})
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