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"Trump's 1ST federal budget plan, proposed eliminating the National Endowment for the Arts & the National Endowment for the Humanities & scrapping the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a key revenue source for PBS & National Public Radio stations, as well as the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; created in 1965 when President Johnson signed legislation declaring that any “advanced civilization” must fully value the arts, the humanities, and cultural activity. Never before has the GOPcontrolled both Congress and the White House. It is unclear whether Republicans who are friendly to the endowments will fight their own party’s president on their behalf. Trump went ahead with the proposal even though his daughteris a longtime supporter of the arts, and the wife of Vice President Pence, has been a staunch advocate for art therapy for years, being a painter herself."
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