President-Elect Trump Wants to Eliminate National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities | Sojourners

President-Elect Trump Wants to Eliminate National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities

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President-Elect Donald Trump wants to get rid of the National Endowment for the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Humanities, reports the Washington Post. Trump also aims to privatize the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting provides nationwide access to public radio, television, and other non-commercial telecommunications services. The National Endowment for the Arts provides Americans with funding needed to engage with the arts and facilitate arts projects. The National Endowment for the Humanities provides funding to museums, libraries, and institutions of higher learning to promote study of the humanities.

Trump wants to do away with these organizations in an effort to tighten the federal budget by $1.05 trillion annually. However, these organizations comprise only 0.02 of the United States’ federal spending.

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