Celebrities Melt Down Over Trump Budget Cuts

Celebrities Melt Down Over Trump Budget Cuts

by Daniel Nussbaum16 Mar 2017

http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2017/03/16/celebrities-freak-nea-budget-cut-without-arts-america-trump/

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.