Trump Tries to Shut Down National Endowment for Arts

President Trump speaks during a rally on Wednesday in Nashville, Tenn., a twenty-four hour period before his budget proposal was released. Evan Vucci/AP hibernate caption

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President Trump speaks during a rally on Wednesday in Nashville, Tenn., a day before his upkeep proposal was released.

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President Trump'due south proposed budget calls for large cuts in a wide array of domestic programs — among them, agencies that fund the arts, humanities and public media.

Funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting would be cut to zero under the proposal, and the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities would exist eliminated entirely, the starting time fourth dimension any president has proposed such a measure.

The spending outline is what White House Budget Director Mick Mulvaney calls a "hard-power budget," with spending increases for defense and homeland security at the expense of many other programs in the discretionary part of the budget.

Mulvaney appeared on MSNBC Thursday morning time to defend the proposal.

"Can we actually continue to ask a coal miner in W Virginia or a single mom in Detroit to pay for these programs?" he asked. "The answer was no. We can ask them to pay for defense and nosotros will, but we tin't ask them to continue to pay for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting."

CPB received $445 1000000 in federal funding in the final fiscal year; the NEA and NEH got about $148 million each — a tiny portion of the roughly $4 trillion federal budget.

In a statement, CPB President and CEO Patricia Harrison said, "There is no feasible substitute for federal funding that ensures Americans have universal access to public media's didactics and advisory programming and services." She called public media "i of America's all-time investments," costing "approximately $ane.35 per citizen per year."

Most CPB funds go straight to local radio and TV stations. NPR'southward funding sources include the program fees those stations pay, and the network receives less than 2 percent of its upkeep directly from CPB.

In a argument, NPR COO Loren Mayor said:

"Millions of Americans depend on their local public radio station for the fact-based, objective, public service journalism they need to stay informed about the world and about the news in their own communities. Public media serves the public interest with essential educational, news and cultural programming non establish anywhere else, as well as vital data during local and regional emergencies. Federal funding is an essential ingredient to making this possible."

The federal funds are especially crucial for local stations, as well as local arts groups, which often receive matching funds from other donors based on their federal allocations.

NEH Chairman William D. Adams issued a argument saying his agency is "greatly saddened to acquire of this proposal for emptying." NEA Chairman Jane Chu said, "We are disappointed considering we meet our funding actively making a difference with individuals of all ages in thousands of communities, large, small, urban and rural, and in every Congressional District in the nation."

That reference to every congressional district is key for the survival prospects of all 3 agencies. Congress will have the final say about the fate of Trump'due south budget, and while some conservatives have long targeted arts and public media for cuts, lawmakers from both parties accept supported the agencies in the past.

The NEH says its grants "have reached into every part of the country," noting:

"Residents in Whitesburg, Kentucky are preserving the photographs and films of their local Appalachian region through Appalshop cultural center. Veterans returning from war in Iraq and Afghanistan connect with archetype texts and the public through Aquila Theatre. Students, teachers and historians take access to the papers of Founding Father George Washington."

According to Americans for the Arts, NEA's almanac appropriation supports a $730 billion arts and culture industry, 4.viii million jobs and a $26 billion trade surplus for the nation.

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Source: https://www.npr.org/2017/03/16/520401246/trumps-budget-plan-cuts-funding-for-arts-humanities-and-public-media

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