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Death to Big Bird: Trump Gunning for Taxpayer-Subsidized ‘News’ and ‘Art’

Lemuel Pitkin

President Trump has four choice words for the state-funded media and pseudo-arts program: Not on my watch.

Plans are in the works to eliminate both the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). And Trump wants to privatize the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), which helps fund National Public Radio (NPR) and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS).

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