President Trump's proposed budget calls for big cuts in a wide array of domestic programs — among them, agencies that fund the arts, humanities and public media.

Funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting would be cut to zero under the proposal, and the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities would be eliminated entirely, the first time any president has proposed such a measure.

The spending outline is what White House Budget Director Mick Mulvaney calls a "hard-power budget," with spending increases for defense and homeland security at the expense of many other programs in the discretionary part of the budget.

#4 - Supremacy of the Military    ........ domestic agenda is ignored

#11 - Disdain for Intellectuals and the Arts  ....... Fascist nations tend to promote and tolerate hostility to higher education and academia.  Sometimes professors and other academics are censored or even arrested.  Free expression in the arts is openly attacked and governments often refuse to fund the arts.





 

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