Stephan: And, finally, consider the drive by Trump and Paul Ryan to close down the National Endowment for the Arts. Republicans have been trying to do this for years but now, since they control both the legislative and executive branches of government, and will soon control the Supreme Court, it looks likely to happen. That it is incompetent, stupid, and will have a dreadful effect on our culture, as well as a large impact on our economy... well that hardly matters to the Republicans. Do I need to say that the negative impact will be felt most powerfully in Red value rural states? Probably not.
President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Management and Budget, Rep. Mick Mulvaney (R-South Carolina), at a conformation hearing, in Washington, January 24, 2017. The budget office has drafted a hit list of programs that Trump could eliminate to trim domestic spending, including long-standing conservative targets like the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the Legal Services Corporation, AmeriCorps and the National Endowments for the Arts and the Humanities.
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Despite the National Endowment for the Arts’ vital role in the US economy, in February, Trump announced that his proposed 2018 budget would eliminate the agency.
While the NEA has been on the target list for the right wing for ages, with so much else at stake, it’s hard to imagine that the left wing will take this on as a priority in its resistance efforts.
The final budget proposal is promised to be out within weeks, which leads us to ask, what would life be like without the NEA?
Fifty years ago, Congress voted to authorize the National […]
Trump and all his minions are what need to be eliminated!