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President's FY21 Budget Calls for Termination of Cultural Agencies Again
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February 10, 2020
For a fourth-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 three fiscal years—will again reject this short-sighted budget request in a bipartisan, bicameral manner, and increase funding for these federal cultural agencies.
In the past three years, Congress not only dismissed these initial calls for termination, but in fact gave steady increases in funding to several of our nation’s cultural agencies. Check out a brief history of budgetary proposals and final funding for these agencies for the past three years with the President’s most recent budget request in red below:
Key Federally Funded Arts Agency
President Trump’s FY 19 Budget Proposal
Final FY 2019 Funding
President Trump’s FY 20 Budget Proposal
Final FY 2020 Funding
President Trump’s FY 21 Budget Proposal
National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)
Termination
$155 million
Termination
$162.25 million
Termination
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
Termination
$155 million
Termination
$162.25 million
Termination
Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)
Termination
$242 million
Termination
$252 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. Additionally, ArtsVote 2020 Chair Ben Folds testified on behalf of Americans for the Arts to urge the House Appropriations Subcommittee to increase NEA funding to $170 million for FY 21. Read Bob and Ben’s written remarks and watch Ben’s testimony on the Arts Action Fund website.
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