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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My favorite for the axe is Americorp. Like the Peace Corps it turns it’s ‘volunteers’ into life-long Democrats.
You’ve got that right! Americorp. We don’t need it.
Get rid of all that ‘rat BS! NPR especially. They ran a Trump attack story just the other day. Screw the demoncrats and their pet publicly funded agit-prop.
Do it asap. Stop talking, do it.
Not excusing the hideous waste of taxpayer dollars at all; but if you are going to fund something like NPR in the DC area, well, $100K employee and you have to share an apartment in Northern Virginia...
So...even more of an argument that this stuff needs to go.
Hey - if the country had no debt and a balanced budget, have at it. But this stuff is a luxury. A luxury we can’t afford.
This is one of the odd things of the way that NPR runs. If they had been located in Charleston, SC or Louisville...the salary structure could have been set at 50-percent of what they pay for DC.
I can remember from the initial first three years of operation....they were mostly a jazz and classical network, with only an hour or two per day of news. I wish that Congress would simply mandate that 50-percent of their day-time operation had to revert back to classical arts/music.
Bout time somebody shut off these democrat socialist taxpayer funded propaganda sewerpipes.
Be still my heart!
Not if you get to them young enough. I had twin nieces that served two "tours" with them and then they lived in my house (and had to listened to me) for three years.
They called me (from California, no less!) last November so excited that Trump won.
As Lincoln said, “Let the thing be pressed.”
Most streets have a turnover of residents.
Not Sesame Street.
Every program on PBS’s various networks already has corporate sponsors. I suspect the tax dollars are needed to pay for the local “Station Managers” and their entitlements.
Yup. These are sacred cows to these batshit crazy fools.
*Singing*: “Can you tell me how to stay…stay away from Sesame Street? …Stay away from Sesame Street…”
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