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Trump budget could ax arts, public broadcasting, anti-drug office: report
The Hill ^ | 02/18/17 | ELLIOT SMILOWITZ

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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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: arts; ax; npr; ondcp; trump; wod
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This is going to set Leftist into orbit.

Go Trump!

1 posted on 02/18/2017 9:03:19 PM PST by Enlightened1
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To: Enlightened1

Sounds like leaker-bait


2 posted on 02/18/2017 9:04:26 PM PST by ElkGroveDan (My tagline is in the shop.)
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To: Enlightened1

DO IT!!!!!
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3 posted on 02/18/2017 9:04:43 PM PST by Az Joe
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To: Enlightened1

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.


4 posted on 02/18/2017 9:05:15 PM PST by Pining_4_TX (For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. ~ Hosea 8:7)
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To: Enlightened1

Could...
Might....
Maybe...


5 posted on 02/18/2017 9:06:50 PM PST by tcrlaf (They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
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To: ElkGroveDan

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.


6 posted on 02/18/2017 9:09:04 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Enlightened1

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.


7 posted on 02/18/2017 9:09:06 PM PST by Vince Ferrer
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To: Enlightened1

It’s past time. What passes for “art” these days is disgusting and obscene.


8 posted on 02/18/2017 9:10:51 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (As long as tyranny exists, the Constitution and Bill of Right will never be "outdated" or "obsolete")
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To: Pining_4_TX
Have you seen Sesame Street lately?

How the mighty have fallen.

9 posted on 02/18/2017 9:13:36 PM PST by Ciaphas Cain (The choice to be stupid is not a conviction I am obligated to respect.)
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To: Pining_4_TX

Could be just a decoy to flush out the leak traitors. These assholes need to be shot and hanged like yesteryears.


10 posted on 02/18/2017 9:14:34 PM PST by max americana (For the 9th time FIRED LIBERALS from our company at this election, and every election since 2008)
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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.

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.

11 posted on 02/18/2017 9:15:08 PM PST by KarlInOhio (a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity - Pres. Eisenhower)
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Cutting the programs listed on the memo would save about $2.5 billion, the Times reported.

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...

12 posted on 02/18/2017 9:17:02 PM PST by GOPJ (The swamp is much deeper than any of us suspected... Freeper jimwatx...)
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

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.


13 posted on 02/18/2017 9:17:37 PM PST by pepsionice
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To: Enlightened1

Stop teasing! I hate these “reports”. I wait until I hear something official coming from Trump’s administration


14 posted on 02/18/2017 9:17:46 PM PST by wiseprince
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To: Enlightened1

$2.5 billion here and $2.5 billion there..........


15 posted on 02/18/2017 9:17:50 PM PST by umgud
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To: Enlightened1

They must mean “axe” since it is used as a verb. More ignorance on The Hill.


16 posted on 02/18/2017 9:19:42 PM PST by Lisbon1940 (No full-term Governors (at the time of election!)
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To: Enlightened1

I hope so.


17 posted on 02/18/2017 9:20:07 PM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: Enlightened1

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?


18 posted on 02/18/2017 9:22:07 PM PST by Restless
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To: Enlightened1

Yes!! Oh, please!! Do it!!


19 posted on 02/18/2017 9:23:03 PM PST by Vesparado (The American people know what they want and they deserve to get it good and hard --- HL Mencken)
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To: Enlightened1

Feds have NO business in the “arts” or “public” broadcasting

NONE.

And that’s without the trillion dollar deficits. GET RID OF THEM ALL


20 posted on 02/18/2017 9:35:23 PM PST by A_Former_Democrat ("Liberalism is a mental disorder" On FULL Display NOW BOYCOTT Mexico NFL PepsiCO Kellogg's)
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