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LADIES AND GENTLEMEN. SINCE WE ARE STUCK BETWEEN STATIONS LET ME TELL YOU MY WHOLE STORY. --the R train, right now, shortly before my death

Mulvaney just said that Meals on Wheels is one of those programs "not showing any results"

RTing myself only to note that this is a thread & to encourage those who think item 1 was my point to keep reading.https://twitter.com/MarkHarrisNYC/status/842432019913142272 …

Guard your ugly-ass tower yourself from now on.https://twitter.com/joshgreenman/status/842448377623281664 …

7) All this combines to cut off local communities from easy access to info. As the GOP wants. Bc voters knowing stuff = Bad news for GOP. x

6) Same is true for defunding the Corp for Public Broadcasting. It'll slightly ding PBS & NPR. But it will destroy local, small stations.

5) So, net result of killing NEA/NEH: Big Bad Liberal Art still gets $. Virtually no budget $ is saved. And heartland America is screwed. >

4) The people who would be deprived of funding for arts, libraries, research, etc. are in small communities and red states. AKA Trumpland. >

3) But freed from any political need to spread the wealth, the $$ would likely land where the arts are concentrated. Which means that...

2) It'd be good press, & not a big lift, since their combined annual budgets are equal to what it cost to make/market Beauty and the Beast.>

1) Here's what would happen if the NEA & NEH were completely defunded: Corporations and rich individuals would step in to pay for a lot. >

I paid for a war that was based on a lie. So save it.https://twitter.com/politico/status/842347194371981312 …

...this budget's conviction that air quality is just a nuisance that keeps the GOP and its donors from getting richer is utterly vile.

Of course a president who's about three cheesesteaks from the crypt wouldn't care about the environment, but for the rest of us...

It is a vicious, ignorant, angry old man's view of the world: "America" must be great at all costs, but actual Americans are on their own.

The Trump budget: Pour everything into defense while destroying much of what makes America worth defending.

Annual federal budget... for the entire NEA: $148 million for the entire NEH: $148 million for military marching bands: $437 million