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WASHINGTON — Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand has voted against every one of President Donald Trump's Cabinet nominees, decried his bid to
eliminate federal arts funding and attacked his overall agenda — and has had her best fundraising quarter ever.
U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand has voted against every one of Trump's Cabinet nominees, decried his bid to
eliminate federal arts funding and attacked his overall agenda — and has had her best fundraising quarter ever: $ 4.4 million.
The budget eviscerates Medicaid and other social safety net programs,
eliminates federal arts support and slashes environmental programs that are unpopular with the administration and its supporters.
Not exact matches
But this is fiddlesticks compared to what the
federal government is doing to
eliminate American children's core knowledge base in English, language
arts and history.
Carter laments that Washington politicians don't share this view, pointing to a
federal budget that has reduced or
eliminated funding for
arts, civics, economics, foreign languages, geography, and history programs.
Eliminating programs that support physical education,
arts education, school counselors, school leadership, and the Teaching American History program indicates that these important activities that promote healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged students are no longer a
federal priority.
For the second straight year, President Trump proposed to
eliminate federal funding for
arts programs and public media and broadcasting as part of the government's budget plan for the next year.