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Yahoo
07-05-2025
- Business
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Entertainment Unions ‘Prepared to Fight Back' Against Trump-Ordered Elimination of NEA, NEH and CPB
The Arts, Entertainment, and Media Industries (AEMI) coalition within AFL-CIO said it is prepared to fight back against Trump's proposed cuts that would eliminate the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), the National Endowment for Humanities (NEH), and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB). Trump's 2026 'Skinny' Budget Request went out last week, continuing his attacks on nonprofit arts organizations such as National Public Radio and PBS. 'Unions are prepared to fight back again against efforts to eliminate the NEA, NEH, and CPB,' said Katie Barrows, Communications Director at the Department of Professional Employees at the labor union in a statement released Wednesday. The AEMI coalition includes the DGA, IATSE, SAG-AFTRA, Writers Guild of America East and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW). 'Nonprofit arts, humanities, and public media enjoy broad, bipartisan public support because they power local economies in every state and expand access to quality artistic and educational content across communities. Shutting down the NEA, NEH, or CPB would be a radical action that would harm everyday people,' she continued. She added, 'The notion that federal funding for the arts, humanities, or public media is a financial burden for working Americans is plainly wrong.' Barrows went on to list the economic value of federal funding for the arts, humanities, and public media, including providing entry points into the industry for people in rural areas, as well as a positive economic impact. 'Audiences spend an estimated $38.46 per person, per event, beyond the cost of admission, on goods and services in the communities where they attend arts and cultural programs,' she said. Barrow also expressed the union's 'deep concern about the 'haphazard termination of hundreds of NEA and NEH grants,' and with them, jobs and projects. Barrow added, 'Private money cannot fully replace federal funding. Eliminating the NEA, NEH, or CPB will lead to the loss of good, middle-class jobs. The most acute economic pain will be far from the soundstages of Hollywood and bright lights of Broadway. Job losses will be in communities where the NEA may be the only funder for regional theater or at local TV or radio stations that depend on CPB funding.' She asked that Congress increase funding for the nonprofits 'as an investment that helps put people, including our members, to work and enriches the fabric of our democracy.' The post Entertainment Unions 'Prepared to Fight Back' Against Trump-Ordered Elimination of NEA, NEH and CPB appeared first on TheWrap.
Yahoo
15-04-2025
- Politics
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Supreme Court Needs to ‘Show Some Backbone' and Stop Trump-Ordered Deportations, Former DOJ Prosecutor Says
If the Supreme Court doesn't take 'drastic steps' to stop President Trump's illegal deportations, 'we really won't have a country left,' Andrew Weissmann, former lead prosecutor for the Department of Justice said in a grim message on Monday. Trump has not only refused to comply with the Supreme Court's unanimous decision uphold a trial judge's order to bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia back to the U.S. after sending him to an El Salvadorean prison, on Monday he told the country's president Nayib Bukele that it was time to start deporting U.S. citizens or 'homegrown criminals' as well. Speaking on 'Deadline: White House with Nicolle Wallace,' Weissmann said, 'It is now going to be up to the Supreme Court to actually show some steel and backbone, to find that this is in violation of their order and take as drastic steps as they can — and ideally again, unanimously — about what is happening here. Or we really won't have a country left.' Weissmann added, 'This really is the Rubicon that I was hoping we would never, ever get to.' He mentioned a fellow panelist, former Judge of the United States Court of Appeals, J. Michael Luttig, saying, 'Judge Luttig correctly said this was going to happen — and it has.' Luttig issued a dire warning that Trump is setting the stage to deport anyone who opposes him. 'What Donald Trump is doing today to other residents and citizens of the United States, he could do to any one of us. And the American people must understand that Donald Trump is willing and fully prepared to grab off the street and deport any person in this country that he believes ought not be here. And that includes any of us.' 'You are all taking my breath away with the clarity of your pronouncements,' said Wallace. 'The View' co-host Whoopi Goldberg warned viewers about the legality of deportations in March, saying, 'the next one they take could be you.' Watch the segment in the embedded video above. The post Supreme Court Needs to 'Show Some Backbone' and Stop Trump-Ordered Deportations, Former DOJ Prosecutor Says appeared first on TheWrap.
