Elimination of the the NEA and the NEH

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Many have, no doubt, received the news that Donald Trump has included in his budget an elimination of the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Although it is unlikely that we will be able to save them for the 2018 budget "House and Senate Republicans have had the institutions in their cross hairs for decades" we need to make it an issue that Democrat candidates vow to revive them in the future. Reviving them immediately after we get back the Presidency and Congress would be a great way to stick it to this administration once it is no longer in power too. On top of this, let me express my opinion that Donald Trump is not just doing this to be economically fiscal, or as one of his advisers says, to put himself in the shoes of the steelworker who may not want to pay taxes to pay for things that are so-called "unnecessary". Donald Trump has had a beef with what conservatives call the "cultural elites" going back past when we was renovating the building that he would turn into Trump Tower. He even deliberately destroyed a statue that a local art institution pleaded with him to donate to them because, he claims, that it would have taken too much time to remove them. He reportedly made insulting remarks about a woman who represented the art institute, mocking her intelligence for daring to show concern for the statues. Although Trump initially told them that he might try to save them if doing so wouldn't cost him too much money, he nonetheless did not even give them a courtesy call to tell them he had "changed plans". It is my opinion that he did this for the purpose of sticking it to the "cultural elites" that he and his father Fred Trump have always held in ire. This is a major motivation for Donald Trump.