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Trump’s 2018 Budget Proposes Ending National Endowments for Arts and Humanities [UPDATED]
A slew of independent agencies would be done away with, while defense spending would go up by $54 billion, under the president's proposed budget.
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Bipartisan Bill Would Boost NEA and NEH Budgets by $1.9 Million Each
President Trump is expected to sign the legislation, which gives financial boosts to the National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities through the end of the current fiscal year.
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A Rally at New York City Hall Calls on Trump to Fund the Arts
About 400 people descended upon City Hall today for a "Rally to Save the Arts," demanding that Trump fully fund the very agencies he wants to completely cut.
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Creative Responses to Trump’s Plan to End the National Endowment for the Arts
It's only been a little over a day since Donald Trump formally proposed defunding the National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities, but already people in creative fields are responding, well, creatively.
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Trump Budget Calls for End to National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities [UPDATED]
The president's budget proposal for 2018 would do away with the two funding agencies and ramp up military spending by $54 billion.
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24 Senators Sign Letter Urging Trump to Keep the National Endowments for Arts and Humanities
A group of Democratic, Republican, and independent Senators has signed a letter urging the president not to cut federal funding to the National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities.
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As Trump Threatens the NEA, an Artist Compiles All the Projects It Funded Last Year
To illustrate the vitality of the National Endowment for the Arts, artist Tega Brain created a website that gathers all the projects the agency funded in 2016.
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Two White House Petitions to Save the NEA and NEH Aren't Registering Signatures
One petition shows only 44 signatures, the other 734. Based on social media sharing, neither seems to be accurate.
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Trump Team Plans to Eliminate National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities
The budget in the works by the Trump team allegedly calls for the complete elimination of the NEA and NEH, plus the privatization of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
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30,000 NYPD Crime Photographs Will Go Online
From contorted corpses splayed on the sidewalk to errant streetcars lodged in storefronts, the New York Police Department has photographed crime scenes almost since the technology was available.
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Video Games on Smallpox and Thoreau's Walden Get Government Funding
A 19th-century Philadelphia smallpox epidemic and Henry David Thoreau's transcendental retreat into the woods are the subjects of two video games awarded grants by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) this Monday.
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National Endowment for the Arts Skirts Budget Slash in Appropriations Bill
The National Endowment for the Arts is slated to receive a budget of $146.02 million per the 2014 Omnibus Appropriations bill released by Congress late yesterday. The figure is down from the Obama administration's proposed $154.47 million and roughly on par with 2013's allocation of $146.26 million.