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President’s FY20 Budget Calls for Termination of Cultural Agencies Again
By Brooke Nuckles, 421 contributed posts
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March 18, 2019
Dear Arts Advocate,
For a third-straight year, the Trump administration has proposed to eliminate the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), and the Corporation of Public Broadcasting (CPB). As misdirected as this proposal is, we are confident that Congress—as it has done in the past two fiscal years—will again reject this short-sighted budget request in a bipartisan, bicameral manner, and increase funding for the Endowments.
In the past two years, Congress not only dismissed these initial calls for termination, but in fact gave steady increases in funding to several cultural agencies. Check out a brief history of budgetary proposals and final funding for these agencies for the past three years below:
Key Federally Funded Arts Agency
President Trump’s FY 2018 Budget Proposal
Final FY 2018 Funding
President Trump’s FY 2019 Budget Proposal
Final FY 2019 Funding
President Trump’s FY 2020 Budget Proposal
National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)
Termination
$152.80 million
Termination
$155 million
Termination
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
Termination
$152.80 million
Termination
$155 million
Termination
Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)
Termination
$240 million
Termination
$242 million
Termination
Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB)
Termination
$445 million
Termination
$445 million
Termination
Be sure to check out Americans for the Arts and Arts Action Fund President and CEO Robert L. Lynch’s full statementregarding the president’s budget proposal. We also hope that you’ll consider contributing to our 2019 campaign to save these cultural agencies from termination.
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