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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a lot of them end up on Netflix anyway....especially the multiepisode MT ones...like Cafael, or the various detective
ones out of Britain!
Defunding the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is unlikely to cripple either PBS or NPR. NPR received less than 1 percent of its revenue from the CPB, and PBS less than 7 percent, according to data from 2014 reported in the Washington Post.
No reason we should ever have been funding them
“The Budget also proposes to eliminate funding for other independent agencies, including: the African Development Foundation; the Appalachian Regional Commission; the Chemical Safety Board; the Corporation for National and Community Service; the Corporation for Public Broadcasting; the Delta Regional Authority; the Denali Commission; the Institute of Museum and Library Services; the Inter-American Foundation; the U.S. Trade and Development Agency; the Legal Services Corporation; the National Endowment for the Arts; the National Endowment for the Humanities; the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation; the Northern Border Regional Commission; the Overseas Private Investment Corporation; the United States Institute of Peace; the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness; and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.”
43% with D+9 - I read yesterday that he’s at 52%, so it may be accurate, but the spin is pathetic.
Something Reagan’s budgets never proposed.
WINNING!
excellent! he never stops working for us
How long until we start getting editorial cartoons of Big Bird being marched to the guillotine?
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Today, Europe stuck its COLLECTIVE tongue out at Trump!...This is Sylvia Poggioli(Pa-Joooooaaaaa-li...strongly accented and elongated second syllable with just the right amount of condescending air in the nose hate American rubes sound) for ALL THINGS CONSIDERED! I chuckled everytime I heard her stuck up European loving murmurings with the “Silvia Poggioooooooooli” at the end of every report!
Teletubbies with Isis headbands arrested trying to scale White House fence.
Let’s see how the whining snowflakes jump in and support them with donations, see how long those fake news sites last.
Let’s see how the whining snowflakes jump in and support them with donations, see how long those fake news sites last.
PBS and NPR will do just fine without government funding. They could trim their salaries 20% and still be overpaying some of their executives and managers.
I have a friend in real estate who gets a lot of relocation NPR and PBS employees. Their salaries are much much higher than local television and radio people. Especially the minorities.
Plus PBS competes with small private companies offering services such as video production and editing. They can undercut the private companies because they pay little to no tax. In some areas they have practically pushed most of the small companies out of business.
Let’s not forget - they’ll do a Jessie Jackson shakedown on corporations.
DO IT!
Great news!!! Go POTUS, Donald J. Trump!!! Drain the swamp!!!
I wouldn’t hold my breath on this... its an opening bid. I think most of public broadcasting can easily be unfunded, but I don’t have a problem that in majorly rural america that a public funded station is providing the farm report and local news to those communities so remote commercial radio isn’t viable.
National Endowment for the Arts? Yea, I am fine with this one... Government needs some art for something go out and commission it, otherwise artists should be producing things people can and want to buy, to feed their families, not just pissing in jars then putting a crucifix in it on the governments dime.
Big Bird can cut a check if he wants to stay on the air.
The Clinton Foundation, Ford Foundation, the Soros clusters of foundations, Tides Foundation and the rest can easily take up the slack.
“Combined, the four arts organizations account for less than 0.02 percent of the U.S. government’s $4.6 trillion budget.”
So?
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