IN 2016 ALONE, OBAMA ALLOWED FOR $148 MILLION TO BE SPENT ON FUNDING FOR THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS AND THE NATIONAL ENDO...
IN 2016 ALONE, OBAMA ALLOWED FOR $148 MILLION TO BE SPENT ON FUNDING FOR THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS AND THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES. I AGREE, ARTS IS A HUGE PART OF AMERICAN CULTURE, BUT IT IS NOT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT’S JOB TO SUPPORT THEM. WELL, IT LOOKS LIKE TRUMP AGREES, AND WE COULDN’T BE MORE STOKED!
Art is an important part of culture, but the federal government’s role in supporting it has been questionable, at best, in recent decades.
With that in mind, President Donald Trump planned to eliminate the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities, two federal programs that each received an astonishing $148 million in funding in 2016 alone, according to The Hill.
On its website, the NEA describes itself as an “independent federal agency whose funding and support gives Americans the opportunity to participate in the arts, exercise their imaginations, and develop their creative capacities.” It’s an agency Trump reportedly wanted actor Sylvester Stallone to take over, but Stallone wasn’t interested.
Likewise, the NEH describes itself as an organization dedicated to “promoting excellence in the humanities and conveying the lessons of history to all Americans.”
In a report on wasteful spending filed four years ago, it was revealed that this mission apparently involved wasting nearly $1 million to study the influence of romance in books, films, etc., according to TheBlaze. And that doesn’t even count that study of French lesbians since World War II.
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