Hillary Clinton Calls Trump’s Proposed Arts And Library Funding Cuts ‘Deeply Disturbing’
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Hillary Clinton has blasted President Trump’s proposed budget, calling its funding cuts to the arts and libraries “deeply disturbing.”
Hillary Clinton has blasted President Trump’s proposed budget, calling its funding cuts to the arts and libraries “deeply disturbing,” reports CNN.
During her keynote address at the American Library Association's convention in Chicago Tuesday, she said, “I believe that libraries and democracy go hand-in-hand.”
She added, “That’s why it’s so hard to believe that in 2017 in America, libraries are actually under attack from our own government. I’m told that...some of you had to duck out of sessions to call Congress and urge them not to eliminate federal funding for libraries.”
After the crowd cheered and applauded, Clinton continued, “The administration has proposed doing so in the budget, and that is not only short-sighted, it is deeply disturbing. It’s like something out of Fahrenheit 451…”
The classic book by Ray Bradbury describes a dystopian future society in which firefighters are tasked with burning books.
Clinton isn’t the only one who has criticized Trump’s budget proposal; a Washington Post report from March called it “the worst-case scenario for arts groups.”
The publication argued at the time that “the budget plan, which calls for the elimination of four independent cultural agencies — the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting--...would radically reshape the nation’s cultural infrastructure.”
But White House Budget Director Mick Mulvaney has since defended the cuts, saying, “Can we really continue to ask a coal miner in West Virginia or a single mom in Detroit to pay for these programs? The answer was no. We can ask them to pay for defense and we will, but we can't ask them to continue to pay for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.”
Hillary Clinton has blasted President Trump’s proposed budget, calling its funding cuts to the arts and libraries “deeply disturbing,” reports CNN.
During her keynote address at the American Library Association's convention in Chicago Tuesday, she said, “I believe that libraries and democracy go hand-in-hand.”
She added, “That’s why it’s so hard to believe that in 2017 in America, libraries are actually under attack from our own government. I’m told that...some of you had to duck out of sessions to call Congress and urge them not to eliminate federal funding for libraries.”
After the crowd cheered and applauded, Clinton continued, “The administration has proposed doing so in the budget, and that is not only short-sighted, it is deeply disturbing. It’s like something out of Fahrenheit 451…”
The classic book by Ray Bradbury describes a dystopian future society in which firefighters are tasked with burning books.
Clinton isn’t the only one who has criticized Trump’s budget proposal; a Washington Post report from March called it “the worst-case scenario for arts groups.”
The publication argued at the time that “the budget plan, which calls for the elimination of four independent cultural agencies — the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting--...would radically reshape the nation’s cultural infrastructure.”
But White House Budget Director Mick Mulvaney has since defended the cuts, saying, “Can we really continue to ask a coal miner in West Virginia or a single mom in Detroit to pay for these programs? The answer was no. We can ask them to pay for defense and we will, but we can't ask them to continue to pay for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.”