#  Goodbye Antiques Road Show, Sesame Street: Trump Plan Would Privatize PBS and Destroy National Arts

     Details    Nadia Prupis   ![logo](https://www.citywatchla.com//templates/ja_teline_v/images/logo.png)         January 19 2017      [  ![](https://www.citywatchla.com/images/stories/Jan-2017/06z1.png)    ](https://www.citywatchla.com/important-reads/12458-goodbye-antiques-road-show-sesame-street-trump-plan-would-privatize-pbs-and-destroy-national-arts)

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> SPECIAL REPORT-President-elect Donald Trump is aiming to slash government spending across the board, with numerous public services in the crosshairs, according to staffers on his transition team who [spoke to](http://thehill.com/policy/finance/314991-trump-team-prepares-dramatic-cuts) *The Hill* on Thursday.
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> The proposals, *The Hill*'s Alexander Bolton writes, "are dramatic."
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> The departments of Justice, State, Energy, Transportation, and Commerce are all targeted for massive budget cuts, with some programs under their jurisdiction slated entirely for elimination. Certain projects overseen by the Commerce and Energy agencies would also be transferred to other bureaus.
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> Meanwhile, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting—which funds, among other things, National Public Radio (NPR) and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)—would be privatized.
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> The National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities would be eliminated entirely.
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> Bolton reports:
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> At the Department of Justice, the blueprint calls for eliminating the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services, Violence Against Women Grants and the Legal Services Corporation, and for reducing funding for its Civil Rights and its Environment and Natural Resources divisions.
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> At the Department of Energy, it would roll back funding for nuclear physics and advanced scientific computing research to 2008 levels, eliminate the Office of Electricity, eliminate the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, and scrap the Office of Fossil Energy, which focuses on technologies to reduce carbon dioxide emissions.
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> Under the State Department's jurisdiction, funding for the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, the Paris Climate Change Agreement, and the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change are candidates for elimination.
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> **"The federal investment in public media is vital seed money—especially for stations located in rural America, and those serving underserved populations," the Corporation for Public Broadcasting said in an email to *Common Dreams*. "The loss of this seed money would have a devastating effect."**
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> "Moreover, the entire public media service would be severely debilitated," the corporation wrote. "There is no viable private substitute for the federal funding that ensures universal access to public broadcasting' programming and services."
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> As Bolton notes, Trump's proposal aligns with a blueprint published in 2016 by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank that has aided the Trump transition. It also echoes similar cuts included in the 2017 budget adopted by the Republican Study Committee (RSC), a caucus of House conservatives.
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> Several members of Trump's transition team also previously worked for the Heritage Foundation.
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> A full budget is expected to be released in April after the team finalizes its cuts. As *ThinkProgress* [noted](https://thinkprogress.org/trump-budget-cuts-842cfa3037#.f8vcfc620), it "looks like it will be far more extreme than anything the Republican Party has proposed so far."

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> Observers took the dire plan as a call to action.
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> "Nothing is lost. Nothing is inevitable. They are a few, we are many. We just need to make our voices heard. It is NOT too late," wrote one. "\[The\] probability of budget making its way to Congress in this form is high...But that's where we come in. We protest 24/7 to stop it."
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> "In case it's not clear: Women will die because of this," wrote another, a statistics professor and health advocate. "Others will suffer needlessly. This is absolutely horrifying."
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> (Nadia Prupis writes for [Common Dreams ](http://commondreams.org)… where this report originated.)
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