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.
Trumps 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. governments $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 NEAs budget.
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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.
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.
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!
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!
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.
MORE WINNING!!!
That's exactly the reason...
Elmo: I think i got tickled by a hobo last night!
“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.
Well,to be fair did obama ever have a budget?
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.
amen
More winning!!!
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.
Here comes the fight...
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.
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