Posted on 03/16/2017 5:16:56 AM PDT by Enlightened1
President Donald Trump made good on a long-time conservative goal in his first proposed budget Thursday morning, targeting the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities for complete elimination.
Trump’s budget would zero out the $445 million budget for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a substantial source of funding for programming and broadcast operations on public TV stations and NPR radio stations nationwide, per the Washington Post.
The budget would also eliminate the budgets for both national endowments, which stood at $148 million each in 2016, as well as $230 million for the Institute of Museum and Library Services, which supports libraries and museums. Additional cuts would affect two tourist mainstays in Washington, D.C., the Smithsonian Institution and the National Gallery of Art.
Combined, the four arts organizations account for less than 0.02 percent of the U.S. government’s $4.6 trillion budget.
Republicans have long put the NEA and the CPB in their budget crosshairs. In 1981, President Ronald Reagan attempted to shut down the NEA, but backed down from the plans after a task force including actor and Reagan friend Charlton Heston advised against it. Reagan did, however, make major cuts to the NEA’s budget.
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The liberals say that like it's a reason to keep it. No wonder we are in the mess we are in. In the private sector, even the largest companies are looking to cut waste, no matter how small. We recently switched to a new phone service because it saved each branch about $12 a month. If I told my CEO that we should keep on paying for something we don't need because it was only .02 percent of the budget, I wouldn't be working there much longer.
I too enjoy the classical music and Masterpiece Theatre. Also enjoyed PBS doing that live broadcast of “South Pacific” with Kelli O’Hara a few years ago (since I couldn’t make a trip to Broadway to see it).
But I don’t like the other stuff which is 99% liberal mindset...and taxpayers having to pay the bill.
Guess I’ll get satellite radio for the classical music if this proposal goes through. You are fortunate to have a local commercial classical station.
Finally!
No more Ken Burns lisping in his baby-boy haircut? WINNING!
Yo, Endowment of the Arts!! Karma for “Piss Christ”. It was only a matter of time.
I have worked for PBS stations. Oooooh, the stories I could tell you...
Good Job.
The PPP poll is D plus 13. It had Clinton winning by 8, and in all the swing states.
These sacred cows will push the Libs into complete and utter hysteria. Most administrations in the past tried this and failed. The flack will be horrendous. Interesting to see if Trump has the guts for it. I don’t think Congress has.
I uh am feeling fiesty just thinking about this....
Can’t we also kill all budgeting for these third world courts aka Ninth Circus.
hmmm, then it’s time to make these libtards pay for their stuff. I ain’t paying for National Puke Radio.
It is about time that we are no longer forced to pay for the propaganda used against us.
What is the biggest contributor to our culture, popular music for the people or opera? Why don’t the fans of PBS insist that at least an equal amount of money be spent on recording rock concerts?
Because PBS is NOT for the people but subsidizes programs for the elites. And the leftist elites at that.
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