Posted on 06/26/2017 8:06:39 AM PDT by RightGeek
Socialist theater group has received $461,000 from the NEA
The National Endowment for the Arts is spending $20,000 for a musical about a lesbian illegal immigrant who is in love with an ICE agent.
The San Francisco Mime Troupe, a self-described socialist theater group, received the funding in the first round of grants awarded under the Trump administration. Jane Chu is the current chairman of the NEA, who was appointed by former president Barack Obama in 2014.
The musical is entitled "WALLS!" and stars a "bad hombre," mocking a phrase used by Trump to describe criminal illegal aliens during a presidential debate.
The musical does not only address issues of immigration, but a host of other liberal and political topics.
[Plot and previous funding SNIPPED]
President Donald Trump has proposed cutting the NEA, along with the National Endowment for the Humanities, entirely. However, both agencies received a $2 million increase from Congress in the budget agreement passed earlier this year.
Chu has served as NEA chairman since her appointment by Obama in February 2014. She has overseen more than $240 million in grants.
(Excerpt) Read more at freebeacon.com ...
The idea? Maybe-I dunno. I kinda’ like it. But then I like lost luggage.
Your Tax Dollars at Work.
*...President Donald Trump has proposed cutting the NEA, along with the National Endowment for the Humanities, entirely. However, both agencies received a $2 million increase from Congress in the budget agreement passed earlier this year...*
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As I recall, this wasn’t President Trump’s budget, but one that was previously formed by Obama...It needed to be implemented to keep the government going....
Trump did not have the time to drastically change what he wanted...
Chu has served as NEA chairman since her appointment by Obama in February 2014. She has overseen more than $240 million in grants.
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Think of all the good that money could have done.
They saw the big success in casting a black rapper as Thomas Jefferson in “Hamilton” so expect more of this history revision.
(To use just one example because who in the left’s intended audience would know the difference anyway.)
President Donald Trump has proposed cutting the NEA, along with the National Endowment for the Humanities, entirely. However, both agencies received a $2 million increase from Congress in the budget agreement passed earlier this year.
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Thanks Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell
President Donald Trump has proposed cutting the NEA, along with the National Endowment for the Humanities, entirely. However, both agencies received a $2 million increase from Congress in the budget agreement passed earlier this year.
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Thanks Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell
When I see this stuff I think of so many ways that money could be better spent...like on injured Vets!
Ryan and McConnell don’t represent their constituencies!!
Drain drain before the brain drain.
How much of this crap can i write off on my taxes?
President Donald Trump has proposed cutting the NEA, along with the National Endowment for the Humanities, entirely. However, both agencies received a $2 million increase from Congress in the budget agreement passed earlier this year.
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Thanks Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell
When I see this stuff I think of so many ways that money could be better spent...like on injured Vets!
Ryan and McConnell don’t represent their constituencies!!
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Just saw this article about Homeless Vets which speaks to my point!! Thanks Paul and Mitch :(
They left out "black" and "muslim". Bigots.
So...when will the president’s proposal start bearing fruit? We don’t need the taxpayer support for this crap.
They continue being traitors to their electorate and to their oath of office. What complete poltroons.
These arts endowments are a huge waste of taxpayer money and appeal only to the navel gazing crowd. The Walker Arts Center in Minneapolis recently commissioned a sculpture that was a recreation of the gallows used in the 1862 mass hanging of Lakota Indians convicted in the massacre of hundreds of white settlers in Minnesota and Iowa. Of course this sculpture opened old wounds with the local Indians and was idiotic to have been commissioned knowing the controversy that would be created. After protests it was dismantled and destroyed. Who knows how much taxpayer money was wasted on that project.
The next budget will be his budget...We’ll see what he foes then...
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