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Trump Budget Proposes Killing All Funding for PBS, NPR and National Endowment for the Arts
The Wrap ^ | 03/16/17 | Thom Geier

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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TOPICS: Breaking News; Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: 115th; arts; budget; defundnpr; federalfunding; first100days; fundingtheleft; nationalendowment; nea; npr; pbs; trump; trumpbudget; winning
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To: Enlightened1

101 posted on 03/16/2017 7:40:33 AM PDT by Right Brother
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To: Enlightened1

We should not be funding government-sponsored news and propaganda, period. Never watch or listen to these anyway; good riddance and thank you President Trump.


102 posted on 03/16/2017 7:41:18 AM PDT by Chauncey Gardiner
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To: thingumbob

103 posted on 03/16/2017 7:43:37 AM PDT by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them)
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To: ArtDodger
They'll still pay for it...that's not the issue. What matters is this stops liberals from giving traditional Americans the finger every day of our lives.

Can you imagine how liberals would feel if WE forced them to pay for a Conservative network run by Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity FOR 50 YEARS? Well, that's what it's been like for us. Trump understands.

Thank YOU President Trump. Thank you for pulling the bullies off us.

104 posted on 03/16/2017 7:44:33 AM PDT by GOPJ (How much is Soros paying the ACLU to sell out the country?)
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To: Enlightened1

Good!

If the effing elite rats want to support these PR organizations for their side, they can step up to the plate and donate their money, not ours!


105 posted on 03/16/2017 7:45:00 AM PDT by Grampa Dave ( Remember during Trump Tower Spygate, there were No American fingerprints; just Obama's...!!!!:))
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To: Enlightened1

Outstanding! Let these Left-Wing, Democrat Propaganda machines compete in the Free Market! And as for the NEA, the crap they call art is beyond me!


106 posted on 03/16/2017 7:45:37 AM PDT by Artcore (Donald J. Trump - 45th President of the United States of America!)
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To: Wuli
What matters here is this stops liberals from giving traditional Americans the finger every day of our lives - and just out of meanness...

Can you imagine how liberals would feel if WE forced them to pay for a Conservative network run by Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity FOR 50 YEARS? Well, that's what it's been like for us. Trump understands.

Thank YOU President Trump. Thank you for pulling the bullies off us.

107 posted on 03/16/2017 7:46:23 AM PDT by GOPJ (How much is Soros paying the ACLU to sell out the country?)
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To: Enlightened1

MORE WINNING!!!


108 posted on 03/16/2017 7:49:41 AM PDT by Rockitz (This is NOT rocket science - Follow the money and you'll find the truth.)
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To: CMailBag
The taxpayers should NOT be paying for the Democrats propaganda.

That's exactly the reason...

109 posted on 03/16/2017 7:50:52 AM PDT by Rockitz (This is NOT rocket science - Follow the money and you'll find the truth.)
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To: Enlightened1
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110 posted on 03/16/2017 7:51:45 AM PDT by Leep (Cyclops Network News (CNN). The Most Trusted Source Of Fake News.)
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To: Magnum44

Elmo: I think i got tickled by a hobo last night!


111 posted on 03/16/2017 7:54:10 AM PDT by Leep (Cyclops Network News (CNN). The Most Trusted Source Of Fake News.)
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To: Emergencyawesome

“McCain running to microphone to say budget is dead on arrival in 3....2...1”

Interesting that he and Linda never said an Obama budget was dead on arrival. However the first Trump budget is dead on arrival.


112 posted on 03/16/2017 7:54:56 AM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: Parley Baer

Well,to be fair did obama ever have a budget?


113 posted on 03/16/2017 7:59:19 AM PDT by Leep (Cyclops Network News (CNN). The Most Trusted Source Of Fake News.)
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To: All

It’s not about the AMOUNT, it’s about the FUNDING of a continual slap in the face to normal Americans and the ideals they hold sacred.


114 posted on 03/16/2017 8:05:54 AM PDT by Maverick68
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To: GOPJ

amen


115 posted on 03/16/2017 8:06:17 AM PDT by Maverick68
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To: Enlightened1

More winning!!!


116 posted on 03/16/2017 8:13:07 AM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Enlightened1

If PBS, NPR and NEA are federally funded, why the h-e-double-toothpicks do they need “fund drives?” I’ve never understood that, and have never contributed. Part of that reason is because they are so gung-ho on globull warming. Bah! Humbug!

Obviously, my money is well spent elsewhere.


117 posted on 03/16/2017 8:13:49 AM PDT by Monkey Face (Often courage is that little voice at the end of the day that says "I'll try again tomorrow." TSM)
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To: Enlightened1

Here comes the fight...


118 posted on 03/16/2017 8:20:01 AM PDT by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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To: Enlightened1
Standing by for the sad Big Bird whines


119 posted on 03/16/2017 8:45:39 AM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: Enlightened1

I guarantee you that some ass hat federal black robed thug is already writing an edict that the funding must be restored, and that the executive and legislative branches have no power to determine how the monies flowing into the treasury are spent.

If Trump’s budget cuts are passed into law, that will happen.


120 posted on 03/16/2017 8:50:47 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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