Congress Restores Funding to Cultural Institutions
In a move that breaks from President Trump's previous stance, Congress has voted to restore funding to cultural institutions, including the Institute of American Indian Arts, which were previously on Trump's chopping block.
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Breaking from the president, Congress voted to fund institutions including the Institute of American Indian Arts In a break from Donald Trump, the Republican-controlled Congress approved a funding bill for multiple key government agencies and institutions in January. Some of those groups included the cultural institutions whose federal funds the president had sought to severely decrease or totally eliminate. Last year, Trump issued “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History”, an executive order that specifically cited the Smithsonian Institution as having “come under the influence of a divisive, race-centered ideology”. The executive order called for an overhaul of the museums and called out the American Women’s History Museum, which now exists only as an online exhibition, the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) and the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC). Continue reading...
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