Will the Smithsonian Have to Obey Trump’s DEI Order? Maybe Not.

ARTnews ^ | January 24, 2025 | Daniel Cassady

[ClearCase_guy]

only 53 percent of the Smithsonian’s funding comes from federal appropriations

Well, hopefully they can survive on 47 percent of their former budget.

[clee1]

Fine. Remove federal funding and staff. Let them go broke with their woke.

[Beowulf9]

“...only 53 percent of the Smithsonian’s funding comes from federal appropriations”...

ONLY?! it’s over half!

[EastTexasTraveler]

If they lose 53% of their funding, I bet they will come around.

[gibsonguy]

The woke cancer is stage 4 at The Smithsonian and has been for years it going to take extreme measures to eradicate it.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Just stop giving them taxpayer dollars. They’ll know what to do.

[KarlInOhio]

only 53 percent of the Smithsonian’s funding comes from federal appropriations,

Maybe they can then survive with a 53% cut in their budget. And that new Space Shuttle the Air and Space Museum got would look good at Mar-a-Lago.

[nickcarraway]

Why don’t they put their money where their mouth is. Burn all their art, and science exhibits from white people. That can bring the justice they seek.

[fruser1]

So, what’s the DEI security like around the Hope Diamond?

Asking for a friend.

[HYPOCRACY]

Force them to release the giant skeletons!

[ansel12]

Is the Smithsonian one of the museums that started showing cave women and various primitive women in more action poses after feminists realized that the females were generally portrayed as doing female stuff around the camp fire related to babies clothing and food while the males were shown holding spears or fishing or hunting?

[FlingWingFlyer]

Is the Smithsonian that racist that they need to be forced to hire minorities and sexual deviants?

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

“federally funded DEI initiatives”

I can’t believe we are paying for that BS

[Governor Dinwiddie]

I say sell all the art and museum knickknacks to collectors, and zero out the Smithsonian.
The Smithsonian's mission morphed into running down America, and picking at scabs.

[jeffersondem]

I’m sorry that Jefferson Davis started the Smithsonian.

[Brookhaven]

There are not 4 branches of government.

But, if they Smithsonian wants to go its own way, it can do so without government funding.

[nickcarraway]

The executive, the legislative, the judiciary, the media, the billionaires, and the bureaucracy. The six branches of government.

[No name given]

My thoughts exactly.

[grobdriver]

only 53 percent of the Smithsonian’s funding comes from federal appropriations

Ok - if you're willing to take a 53% pay cut, do your own thing.