"It appears that Trump has a plan in order to fund the $8.6 billion for border wall funding and the $861 billion in increased military spending called for in his new budget: cut all funding for the arts and humanities, public television and radio, and libraries and museums.
"For the third time in a row, Trump’s proposed budget plan calls for the shuttering of the National Endowment of the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and the Institute for Museum and Library Services. The cuts come to a total of $897 million."
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The White House says the cuts are part of the elimination of "wasteful or unnecessary spending." As if it couldn’t get worse, Trump budget would cut all funding for arts, libraries by Alexandra Jacobo (Nation of Change)
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