Celebrities Melt
Down Over Trump Budget Cuts
by Daniel Nussbaum16 Mar 2017
Celebrities took
to Twitter Thursday to bemoan
President Donald Trump’s 2018 budget proposal, which, among other items,
eliminates the budgets for the National
Endowment for the Arts and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
While the stars’ criticism focused on the broad
nature of the proposed budget cuts, including deep cuts at the Environmental
Protection Agency, the bulk of the criticism appeared to center on
the elimination of the arts budgets, which fund public media including PBS
and NPR.
Some, including Billy on the Street host Billy
Eichner and The Wire creator David Simon, lamented that the elimination
of the NEA would cut funding to Sesame Street, though the long-running
kids television program was picked
up by HBO last year.
National Endowment for the Arts
National
Council on the Arts advises the National
Endowment for the Arts.
Mary Ann Tighe
was the deputy chairman for the National
Endowment for the Arts, and is a regional CEO for the CBRE Group, Inc.
Richard C. Blum
is a director & former chairman for the CBRE Group, Inc., married to California
Senator Dianne Feinstein, and an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank).
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Brookings Institution
(think tank), the Human Rights Watch,
the Sundance Institute, the NPR, and the New America Foundation.
George Soros
was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society,
a benefactor for the Human Rights Watch,
and is Jonathan Soros’s father.
Geoffrey Cowan
was a director at the Human Rights Watch,
and a director at the
Corporation for
Public Broadcasting.
Patricia E.
Mitchell was a director at the Human
Rights Watch, the president & CEO for the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), and is the vice chair for the Sundance Institute.
Sesame Street
is a Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)
program, and a Sesame Workshop
program.
Gary
E. Knell was the president & CEO for the Sesame Workshop, and the president & CEO for the NPR.
Vivian Schiller
was the president & CEO for the NPR,
and the head of news partnerships for Twitter
Inc.
Thomas E. Rothman
is a trustee emeritus at the Sundance
Institute, and a member of the National
Endowment for the Arts.
Henry W. McGee
was a trustee at the Sundance Institute,
and the president of HBO Video.
HBO
Video is a division of HBO.
Robert Redford
is the founder & president for the Sundance
Institute, an advisory board member for the Edible Schoolyard, and a member of Kappa Sigma.
David Mas Masumoto
is an advisory board member for the Edible
Schoolyard, and a member of the National
Council on the Arts.
Ted
Turner is a member of Kappa Sigma, and Laura Turner Seydel’s father.
Laura Turner
Seydel is Ted Turner’s daughter,
a board member for the Environmental
Working Group, and a trustee at the Waterkeeper
Alliance.
Terry Tamminen
is a board member for the Waterkeeper
Alliance, was the secretary for the California
Environmental Protection Agency, and a senior fellow & climate policy
director for the New America Foundation.
Jonathan Soros is
a director at the New America Foundation,
and George Soros’s son.
Laura D'Andrea
Tyson was a director at the New
America Foundation, a trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank),
is a professor at the Haas School of
Business, and a director at the CBRE
Group, Inc.
Richard C. Blum
is an honorary trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank), a board member at the Haas School of Business, a director & former chairman for the CBRE Group, Inc., and married to California Senator Dianne Feinstein.
Mary Ann Tighe is
a regional CEO for the CBRE Group, Inc.,
and was the deputy chairman for the National
Endowment for the Arts.
National
Council on the Arts advises the National
Endowment for the Arts.
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