Posted on 02/18/2017 9:03:19 PM PST by Enlightened1
The White House is considering eliminating funding for arts, public broadcasting and legal services to cut domestic spending, according to the New York Times.
The Times reported late Friday that it obtained an internal Office of Management and Budget (OMB) memo containing a “hit list” of programs that could be axed.
Reportedly on the list: the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Americorps, the National Endowments for the Arts and the Humanities, the White House’s Office of National Drug Control Policy and the Export-Import Bank, among others.
Cutting the programs listed on the memo would save about $2.5 billion, the Times reported. The Congressional Budget Office projects that the government will spend $4 trillion in 2017.
The Senate on Thursday confirmed Mick Mulvaney to lead OMB in a slim 51-49 votes. Republican Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) joined all Democrats and Independents in opposing him.
The memo was circulating at OMB on Tuesday, before Mulvaney’s confirmation, the Times reported.
OMB plans to finalize the list of programs to be axed by March 13, the report said.
Several programs on the draft list are longtime conservative targets. Then-Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) and House Republicans went after funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and National Endowments for the Arts and the Humanities in the mid 1990s, drawing major pushback at the time.
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Go Trump!
Sounds like leaker-bait
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I hope this happens! People start whining about Big Bird and the cowardly Republicans always cave. I can just hear the attacks saying that Republicans are cavemen who hate art & want to see drug addicts dying in the streets.
Could...
Might....
Maybe...
This list of “proposed” budget cut targets is so old the paper has whiskers.
In reality, it has been a conservative’s wet dream hit list for years and has been mentioned by many politicians during Obamie’s 8 years of ruin.
Maybe not so much “fake news” if the list actually exists than “OLD NEWS”.
Perhaps The Hill/NYT should read the own newspapers.
Have a list of regulations to roll back while the press is focused on the budget cuts. Red states, have some bills ready as well.
It’s past time. What passes for “art” these days is disgusting and obscene.
How the mighty have fallen.
Could be just a decoy to flush out the leak traitors. These assholes need to be shot and hanged like yesteryears.
The have made contingency plans for this already. I heard this at the end of a show on PBS a couple weeks ago:
Major funding for The Murder of a President is provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Seriously, that's what they said.
I'd be for the cuts if they only saved a dollar... I'm tired of all our tax dollars being spent supporting left wing causes, left wing professors, left wing radio, left wing 'arts' and left wing 'victims.
Enough is enough...
About five years ago....someone wrote up a piece on the salary structure of the NPR hosts. It shocked me that they were paying $250,000 to $350,000 for at least a dozen employees. They probably had at least fifty people making $100,000 or more a year within the structure.
Stop teasing! I hate these “reports”. I wait until I hear something official coming from Trump’s administration
$2.5 billion here and $2.5 billion there..........
They must mean “axe” since it is used as a verb. More ignorance on The Hill.
I hope so.
I hope it’s true, especially for NPR. With the vast array of media available to us now, why in the world do we need a government-funded media outlet?
Yes!! Oh, please!! Do it!!
Feds have NO business in the “arts” or “public” broadcasting
NONE.
And that’s without the trillion dollar deficits. GET RID OF THEM ALL
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