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highplainsdem

(56,282 posts)
Sat May 3, 2025, 04:19 PM May 3

Trump proposes eliminating the NEA and NEH as arts grants are canceled

Source: Washington Post

President Donald Trump’s budget proposal would eliminate the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities, reviving his failed first-term attempts to scrap the grantmaking agencies as he moves to reshape the nation’s artistic and cultural landscape.

The proposed cuts come even after the NEH slashed its workforce and the NEA canceled grants in compliance with Trump’s directives to reduce the federal workforce and shut down diversity, equity and inclusion programs. The tentative budget plan also targets the Institute of Museum and Library Services and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, as part of $163 billion in proposed cuts across much of the federal government.

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Last month, after the administration eyed plans to make NEH cuts, at least 1,200 NEH grants were canceled, according to the National Humanities Alliance. Many NEH employees also received reduction-in-force notices about a week later.

Then, NEH acting chair Michael McDonald told the National Council of Humanities that some funds from the NEH and NEA would be repurposed to pay for the National Garden of American Heroes and next year’s Declaration of Independence celebrations.

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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/2025/05/03/trump-budget-nea-neh-eliminate/

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Trump proposes eliminating the NEA and NEH as arts grants are canceled (Original Post) highplainsdem May 3 OP
Trump is destroying all American art, culture, society. Irish_Dem May 3 #1
Who needs art? Who needs culture? I guess we'll find out. Jim__ May 3 #2
And while the Trump regime is canceling grants, generative AI and people using it are undermining highplainsdem May 3 #3
A cretin like Trump has no use for art. C_U_L8R May 3 #4
He is unqualified to even be feces. dchill May 3 #7
So what are we going to get with our income tax payments? Klarkashton May 3 #5
This is a long-term GOP goal jmowreader May 3 #6
Trump will decide what is "art" IcyPeas May 3 #8

Irish_Dem

(70,186 posts)
1. Trump is destroying all American art, culture, society.
Sat May 3, 2025, 04:22 PM
May 3

He is taking a wrecking ball to all of it.
To destroy the heart of our society.

highplainsdem

(56,282 posts)
3. And while the Trump regime is canceling grants, generative AI and people using it are undermining
Sat May 3, 2025, 04:27 PM
May 3

artists' livelihoods.

C_U_L8R

(47,377 posts)
4. A cretin like Trump has no use for art.
Sat May 3, 2025, 04:33 PM
May 3

Proving to the world, once again, that he is in fact a short-fingered vulgarian

Klarkashton

(3,386 posts)
5. So what are we going to get with our income tax payments?
Sat May 3, 2025, 04:55 PM
May 3

We will get military police and the taxes will never go down for actual working people. Guaranteed.

jmowreader

(52,338 posts)
6. This is a long-term GOP goal
Sat May 3, 2025, 05:59 PM
May 3

It appears to me that our fiends on the other side of the aisle have decided to get everything they ever wanted in the first year of Trump II so if they lose their majority next year they’ve got it all locked down.

IcyPeas

(23,621 posts)
8. Trump will decide what is "art"
Sat May 3, 2025, 08:35 PM
May 3

And just look what maralago looks like... and his gaudy ny penthouse and the oval office. Gold... just like his precious hair.

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