Trump’s 2019 Budget Aims to Zero Out Funding for the NEA and NEH—Again
[2023-02-27 14:26:40]
President Donald Trump 's budget plan for 2019 arrived at the Diet with the slogan "efficient, effective, responsible" on Monday. The weight of this document is $ 4.4 trillion, 160 pages, designed to reduce medical and other household expenditures while significantly increasing military expenditure.
Following the 2018 budget proposal, the 2019 document also proposed the abolition of the National Arts Foundation, the National Humanities Foundation, and the Museum and Library Service Association. However, in the process of long debate with Congress, the budget is the initial result, "New York Times" is "Blueprint ... is almost unlikely to be published in writing" and "equivalent to Mr Trump "I pointed out. Vision statement. "
In fact, last year, Mr. Trump suggested cancellation of these agencies, but NEA, NEH, and the Museum Library Service Association were exempted, and the increase in funds was small (however, it has not kept pace with inflation). In the process, even the House Republican group backed the maintenance of these institutions.
The National Art Foundation states in a statement that the budget suggested by the President is "disappointing". Government agencies have so far allocated $ 26.7 million in the US in 2018 in the past. In other activities, it published a research report on the economic impact of art in rural areas and distributed emergency funds to art institutions in Florida, Texas, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands. "According to the statement, the authorities "We will continue to operate as usual".
NEH announced its own statement to announce its results in 2018 and said that the organization temporarily "continues normal operations". According to Jon Parrish Peede, senior vice president of NEH, the agency will hold a national committee in March and will award the next 1818 awards.
The IMLS statement also guarantees the reader "to continue normal funds through the allocated 2018 funds."
The next step in the budget process is the actual testing of the three agencies. The House of Representatives and the Senate are now writing their own budget decisions and voting. Later, before the budget is sent back to the president's desk, the budget committees of both houses will determine the exact level of funds.
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The Congress goes through the federal budget every year and this is the only proposal of the President, but the playing card requires a second consecutive year to cancel NEA and NEH. Trump's 2019 "large savings and reforms" document urged the NEA to cut its budget from $ 150 million in 2017 to $ 29 million in 2019. Likewise, NEH will decrease from $ 150 million in 2017 to $ 42 million in 2019. Considering important financial support from private and other public institutions, the budget bill began to be established and the government declined in 2019 that the activities of the NEA are not the central responsibility of the federal government. In 2014, NEA funds were only 4% of the total of US public and private art support.
President Donald Trump 's budget proposes to cancel the NEA and NEH and privatize the CPB. President Trump 's budget, the level of funds proposed for the purpose of initiating the process of closing three organizations with NEA $ 29 million, NEH 42 million dollars, CPB 30 million dollars. DPE and its affiliated artists, entertainment, media industry experts, and NEA and NEH experts agree that NEA, NEH, and CPB will notify NEA, NEH, and CPB by notifying the public about the impact of government agencies Unity and culture to protect, especially the bright light of Hollywood and rural communities far away from the stage of Broadway