While President Donald Trump‘s controversial takeover of the Kennedy Center grabbed headlines in Washington, his administration has taken an ax to arts funding far beyond the capital city.
Trump’s funding cuts have affected programs across the country after his administration began canceling National Endowment for the Arts grants last month.
Cuts have hit the Berkeley Repertory Theater in California, Central Park Summer Stage in New York, and the Chicago-area Open Studio Project, NPR reported. Programs were eliminated at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, and a Pittsburgh-area grant designed to teach black girls to create artificial intelligence tools was canceled.
It is part of an effort by the embattled Department of Government Efficiency and the Trump administration to cut what supporters say is
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