Actors’ Equity has condemned President Donald Trump’s “outrageous” proposal to freeze $110 million in the 2021 budget for the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
The proposed freeze is part of the $27.4 billion in government programs Trump is trying to stall in his last days in office through a process known as “rescission,” in which he can ask Congress to cede budget authority over certain programs for which money has been allocated but not yet spent. While Congress processes the request, funding for these programs can be frozen for up to 45 days.
The list of proposals, formally submitted last week, “identifies wasteful and unnecessary spending that must be removed from the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021, as well as other amounts that are no longer needed for the purposes for which they were appropriated,” OMB director Russell Vought wrote in a letter.
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