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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A good first step.
What will the libs do w/o Nationalized Public Radio? Where will they get their Marxist propaganda?
Every day is Christmas.
Museums and libraries used to be worthwhile. Now there is a free market called the Internet.
I enjoy some of the Masterpiece theater programs...but they can be privately funded.
If Hollywood wants to object they can fund PBS.
Excellent
I can believe it. It is probably the same 501(c)(3) stick that borders on a scam at times, aka College ( and even prep school ) Endowments that are from large donations from alumni's. How many Billion is Harvard's? And what do they do with all those funds? Build towers of babble in their own image most of the times, the expansions and buildings are grotesque, they are building fiefdoms most of the time, not educating minds. If they are in the black with all their fund raisers? Good, learn how to run the business lean and mean and structure your nest egg to drive off 1/4 dividends and only use those for basic expenses.
They have money to pay for it. They just want (and now expect) somebody else to pay instead.
Those brilliant, intellectual, Progressive geniuses will not be able to get their daily dose of brilliant, intellectual, Progressive-genius programming.
Horrors!!!
/s/
IMHO
Who, the Dems or the Republicans?
mccain, linda and the gal from Maine will make it difficult to get a majority.
Idiots.
One republican already said it’s dead on arrival. I’d narrow it down to 2 or 3 guys.
Phuque Chuck.
Wow! Did hell just freeze over????
WoW!!
This action meets my personal benchmark that I set years ago that would indicate a real change taking place.
WINNING!!!!
I enjoy some of the Masterpiece theater programs...but they can be privately funded.
If Hollywood wants to object they can fund PBS.
Agree and agree.
upChuck might, but my understanding is that Sesame Street is owned by HBO these days
Maybe Soros will step up and fund them...
Good!!!!!!!!!1
More Swamp draining. Gutsy and controversial. Buying popcorn now.
Another government program that shouldn’t be....
“The taxpayers should NOT be paying for the Democrats propaganda”.
Exactly!
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