Will Defunding Public Television Make America Great Again?

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President Trump, Meet Mr. Rogers

Fred Rodgers on the set of of Mr. Roger's Neighborhood
Fred Rodgers on the set of of Mr. Roger's Neighborhood

President Trump and his budget director have drafted a list of list of programs that might be eliminated to trim domestic spending which include the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the L

egal Services Corporation, AmeriCorps and the National Endowments for the Arts and the Humanities.

The list also includes the White House’s Office of National Drug Control Policy, which dispenses grants to reduce drug use and drug trafficking and the Export-Import Bank, which has guaranteed loans to foreign customers of American companies since the 1930s.

Other entities on the budget office’s list of cuts include the Overseas Private Investment Corporation and the Corporation for National and Community Service, which finances programs run by AmeriCorps and SeniorCorps. Reduced funding is also being considered for the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation, a nonprofit organization focused on urban development.

While we all understand the need to change from business as usual policies and politics, the proposed cuts are not from the programs that constitute where the budget black holes are.

Watch Mr. Rogers testify before congress in 1969 that not funding public television is not a good idea.

Is defunding and disbanding these entities any less true today?

 

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