Posted on 01/19/2017 12:05:04 PM PST by pissant
The Trump administration is seeking major cuts to federal spending upon taking office, with plans to eliminate agencies and programs to reduce the budget by over $10 trillion.
The National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities would be eliminated, according to a new report on the administration’s spending priorities published by the Hill.
Both arts agencies have budgets of roughly $147 million. The NEA awards millions of dollars worth of grants for art projects each year, which have included plays about assassinating Christopher Columbus, food stamps, and gun-control activist lesbians, climate change poetry, and “Doggie Hamlet.”
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I am somewhat involved in the arts and taking that funding away from the leftist cronies would be huge.
A free market in the arts would be a massive breath of fresh air.
I PRAY!!!!
Here’s to the late Jesse Helms.
Just shut ‘er down.
I think we are talking about the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) not National Education Association (also NEA). The education association is a private supposedly voluntary organization, basically a union.
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