Trump Budget Proposes Killing All Funding for PBS, NPR and National Endowment for the Arts
The fight is on as new president puts Big Bird in his crosshairsPresident 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 relatively small 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.
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Commentary: Killing Big Bird
Next week, Donald Trump releases his
new budget. It’s expected to cut spending on things like the National
Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities and
the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Good!
Government
has no business funding art. When politicians decide which ideas
deserve a boost, art is debased. When they use your money to shape the
culture, they shape it in ways that make culture friendlier to
government.
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As
The Federalist’s Elizabeth Harrington points out, the National
Endowment for the Arts doesn’t give grants to sculpture honoring the
Second Amendment or exhibitions on the benefits of traditional marriage.
They fund a play about “lesbian activists who oppose gun ownership” and
“art installations about climate change.”
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