#budgetcuts — Public Fediverse posts
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https://www.europesays.com/people/70717/ Mamdani blasted for planned cuts to veterans services, axing events including parade #Budget #BudgetCuts #CityBudget #CityCouncil #Metro #Politics #USNews #veterans #VeteransDayParade #ZohranMamdani
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Hughes Unleashes Expletive-Laden Tirade Over NDIS Reductions
Australia's NDIS faces major changes. Up to 160,000 people could lose support by 2028. Find out how these budget cuts affect participants.
#NDIS #DisabilitySupport #Australia #BudgetCuts #NDISChanges
https://newsletter.tf/australian-ndis-cuts-160000-lose-support/
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Up to 160,000 Australians might lose NDIS support by 2028. This is a large number of people who rely on the scheme for daily living.
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We Need to Talk About the National Park Service
We need to talk about the National Park Service. What it does. What it costs. And what gets lost when an administration decides public goods are soft targets.https://adventureadjacent.com/2026/04/07/we-need-to-talk-about-the-national-park-service/
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The Quiet Throat-Cutting of the American University
Syracuse University announced the other day that it will phase out 93 of its approximately 460 academic programs. The administration framed the decision as strategic alignment, calling it a portfolio review driven by student demand and institutional focus. Provost Lois Agnew insisted the move was “not a cost-cutting exercise.” Taken at face value, some of these cuts are routine catalog maintenance. Fifty-five of the ninety-three programs had zero students enrolled. Twenty-eight were advanced certificate supplements to graduate degrees. The provost herself noted that Syracuse offered more than double the roughly 200 programs typical of peer institutions, and a university trimming a bloated catalog to concentrate faculty resources is doing ordinary academic management. Reasonable people can call that housekeeping.
The housekeeping argument collapses, however, when you examine which programs with actual students were targeted. The nine flagship cuts announced in late March struck Classical Civilization, Classics, Digital Humanities, Fine Arts, German, Latino-Latin American Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Modern Jewish Studies, and Russian. Those are not random low-performers. That list reads like a table of contents for any serious attempt to understand Western civilization, global politics, and the moral architecture of the modern world. The zero-enrollment programs provide administrative cover for the cuts that carry ideological weight, and the 93 number does the rhetorical work of making nine consequential eliminations look like a rounding error.
Syracuse is a private university charging $66,580 per year in tuition, and it answers to its board, not to a state legislature. Its budget decisions are not driven by state appropriations in the way that a land-grant institution’s are. But Syracuse matters here because the pattern of what gets cut, and the institutional logic used to justify the cutting, is identical to what is happening at public universities that depend on taxpayer funding. When private and public institutions, operating under different financial pressures and different governance structures, independently arrive at the same conclusion about which disciplines to sacrifice, the question shifts from institutional management to cultural consensus. No single institution’s decision to trim its catalog would warrant concern. What warrants concern is that Syracuse, West Virginia, Nebraska, The New School, Miami of Ohio, Montclair State, Boston University, and Brown are all cutting the same kinds of programs at the same time, and the pattern always lands on the disciplines that teach people how to think, how to read difficult texts, how to argue, and how to question power.
The trail of cuts extends across the country. West Virginia University eliminated 32 majors in 2023, with humanities departments absorbing the worst damage. Boston University suspended doctoral admissions in the humanities and social sciences. The New School in New York, an institution founded in 1919 as a haven for intellectual rigor, is gutting Eugene Lang College and The New School for Social Research, cutting or pausing 23 majors and 16 minors. Miami University of Ohio put 18 humanities programs on the block. Montclair State University in New Jersey tried to dissolve its entire College of Humanities and Social Sciences before international pressure forced a partial retreat. Brown University and other Ivy League institutions canceled doctoral programs in the humanities for the 2026-27 academic year after federal funding dried up. Texas A&M eliminated its women’s and gender studies program to comply with a policy from the university system’s board of regents.
The numbers behind these decisions are stark but not mysterious, and they did not begin in 2025. Between 2012 and 2022, undergraduate degrees awarded in the humanities fell 24 percent nationwide, according to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The percentage of bachelor’s degrees conferred in the humanities dropped from 16.8 percent in the 2010-11 academic year to 12.8 percent in 2020-21, per the National Center for Education Statistics. Fewer than ten percent of college graduates in 2020 earned a humanities degree. That decline spanned the Obama and Biden administrations. It was driven by the aftershocks of the 2008 financial crisis, by the explosion in student debt that made families desperate for vocational certainty, by bipartisan STEM-focused messaging from politicians of both parties, and by a culture that increasingly equated the worth of a degree with its starting salary. These are the statistics administrators cite when they announce cuts. Enrollment is down. Students are voting with their feet. The market has spoken.
The honest version of this argument acknowledges that the slow erosion of humanities enrollment has multiple causes, some of them economic and cultural rather than political. But honesty also requires recognizing the difference between a chronic illness and a directed killing. What has happened since January 2025 is categorically different from the gradual enrollment decline of the previous decade. The current political environment has transformed a slow erosion into an accelerated demolition, and the tools of that demolition are identifiable, funded, and coordinated.
What the administrators fail to mention is that the market, already weakened, has been deliberately broken.
Consider what has happened at the federal level. In April 2025, the Department of Government Efficiency terminated more than 1,400 open grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, totaling an estimated $175 million in undisbursed funds. State humanities councils, which receive nearly half of NEH’s federal appropriation, lost their operating grants overnight. The Connecticut Humanities council lost $1.5 million of its $4 million budget in a single notification. Pennsylvania Humanities saw over 60 percent of its budget evaporate. In May 2025, the Trump administration’s budget proposal called for the complete elimination of the NEH, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Institute of Museum and Library Services. A federal judge in August 2025 ruled the grant terminations “unlawful,” but by that point, staff had been laid off, programs had been canceled, and community institutions had already absorbed the damage.
The NEH grant cancellations did not empty a German class at Syracuse the following semester. That is not how the mechanism works. Federal humanities funding sustains the research infrastructure, graduate fellowships, and faculty positions that keep programs viable across years and decades. When you eliminate doctoral funding at the federal level, fewer graduate students enter the pipeline. Fewer graduate students means fewer qualified faculty five and ten years from now. Fewer faculty means fewer course offerings, which means lower enrollment, which means administrators can point to low enrollment as evidence that the program should be cut. The causation is real, but it operates on a generational timeline, and the people making the cuts understand this perfectly. They are planting a fire and waiting for the forest to burn.
Ideological targeting is explicit in the mechanism. Updated NEH guidance announced that grants related to diversity, equity, and inclusion, environmental justice, and “gender ideology” had been canceled as inconsistent with agency priorities. The administration did not cut the NEH because it cost too much. At $207 million annually, the NEH’s entire budget is a sum the FY2026 defense appropriation of $838.7 billion could fund 4,600 times over. DOD’s total FY2026 topline reached $961.6 billion, with the president calling for $1.5 trillion in defense spending for FY2027. The NEH was cut because it funded the kind of inquiry that produces conclusions the administration finds politically inconvenient. The fiscal argument is a costume worn by an ideological project.
In Nebraska, Governor Jim Pillen recommended cutting $14.3 million from the University of Nebraska’s $700 million state appropriation, even as the university tracked $178 million in lost federal research funding. Pillen, who received a campaign endorsement from President Trump and explicitly credited the president’s philosophy of “running government like a business,” proposed $500 million in total state budget reductions while simultaneously championing income tax cuts that had already created a $471 million budget shortfall. He called on the legislature to remove diversity, equity, and inclusion programs from the university system, claiming this would align higher education with “Nebraska values.” The logic is circular: cut taxes, create a deficit, blame the deficit on spending, and then use the manufactured crisis to strip from public universities the programs that most threaten political orthodoxy.
Syracuse, despite being private, faces a version of the same pressure. Its international student enrollment dropped from 12 percent of the incoming class in 2023 to 5 percent recently, costing millions in full-tuition revenue. The erosion of international enrollment is itself a consequence of federal immigration policy, visa restrictions, and the broader signal that the United States is no longer a welcoming destination for foreign students. When the government makes it harder for international students to study here, universities lose revenue, and then those same universities are told to cut programs because they can no longer afford them.
Meanwhile, public money flows toward private and religious schools through a separate but philosophically parallel channel. The Educational Choice for Children Act, signed into law as part of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act in July 2025, created the first national school voucher program. Starting in 2027, individuals can receive dollar-for-dollar tax credits of up to $5,000 for donations to scholarship-granting organizations that fund private and religious school tuition. The program’s annual volume cap is $5 billion. The voucher money does not come from the same line item as NEH grants or state university appropriations. These are different fiscal streams. But they express the same governing philosophy: that public education, whether K-12 or higher, is an expense to be minimized rather than an investment to be protected, and that taxpayer dollars are better spent subsidizing private alternatives than sustaining the public institutions that serve everyone. Arizona’s voucher program alone cost the state $872 million in fiscal year 2025, and an audit found roughly 20 percent of those funds went to unauthorized purchases including personal electronics and luxury items. At least 45 percent of the students receiving aid in Arizona were never enrolled in public schools to begin with, meaning the state was paying for private education that families were already financing on their own. By the 2026-27 school year, approximately half of all American students will be eligible for some form of publicly funded private school voucher, according to FutureEd at Georgetown University.
The architecture of the current acceleration is methodical, and it operates on top of the pre-existing enrollment decline like an accelerant poured on a smoldering fire. Cut federal support for humanities research and programming. Manufacture state budget crises through aggressive tax cuts. Restrict international enrollment through hostile immigration policy. Redirect the philosophical commitment to public education toward private and religious alternatives through voucher programs. Then point to declining enrollment in humanities programs as evidence that the market no longer values them. Long-term erosion had multiple causes, some of them organic. Current demolition does not. Programs are being starved, and then their emaciation is cited as proof that they were never worth feeding.
When a university cuts Classical Civilization, German, Russian, Middle Eastern Studies, and Modern Jewish Studies, what vanishes is the institutional capacity to produce citizens who can read primary sources in the languages of the civilizations that shaped, and continue to shape, global affairs. A country that cannot educate its own people in the languages and histories of the Middle East, Russia, and East Asia is a country that will be governed by people who do not understand the forces acting upon it. That outcome has been engineered.
The humanities teach what cannot be automated: the capacity to hold contradictory ideas in tension, to read between the lines of political rhetoric, to recognize when a historical pattern is repeating, to distinguish between information and understanding. These are capacities that make populations difficult to govern through propaganda, because citizens who can parse a sentence can also parse a lie. The defunding of the humanities is, at its operational core, a campaign against the capacity for dissent.
The Syracuse provost wrote that the review aimed to create “a portfolio that is more focused, more distinctive and more aligned with student demand.” Matthew Huber, who co-chairs the university’s Academic Affairs Committee, described the announcement as ominous and “pretty intent on cutting things.” A faculty census showed Syracuse lost 44 professors between 2024 and 2025, most of them non-tenured. When you eliminate the programs that train people to question institutional authority, and then you eliminate the faculty who teach those programs, what remains is an institution that no longer has the internal capacity to question its own decisions.
The public universities built this country’s intellectual infrastructure. The Morrill Land-Grant Acts of 1862 and 1890 created the system of state universities that democratized higher education by making it available to people who were not born into wealth. Those institutions produced the engineers, scientists, teachers, doctors, lawyers, writers, and civic leaders who built the twentieth century’s most consequential democracy. The current project to defund, privatize, and politically capture those institutions is an attack on the social contract that made mass education a public good rather than a private privilege.
The country finds $838 billion for defense spending, $175 billion in defense reconciliation funding, and a proposed $1.5 trillion military topline for FY2027. Another $5 billion in annual tax credits awaits the wealthy who wish to subsidize religious school tuition. Funds materialize for border walls and deportation infrastructure and surveillance systems and weapons platforms that will be obsolete before they are deployed. What cannot be located is $207 million for the National Endowment for the Humanities, or adequate funding for the University of Nebraska, or a reason to keep Classical Civilization alive at Syracuse. The money was always there. The only question was what kind of citizen it would be spent to produce.
A nation that will not educate its own people is a nation preparing to be ruled, and a population that cannot read its own history is a population that will repeat the worst of it without recognition.
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Can you say giant S_IT SHOW!
Turmoil resulting from "seismic shifts in NASA Management and in the Federal government has caused "sweeping workforce losses and operational instability throughout 2025", and has led to the cancellation of one of NASA's most important upcoming astrophysics missions to launch a next generation x-ray telescope.
The project has lost more than 20 personnel with key expertise as a result of NASA's Deferred Resignation Program and endless management reorganizations to "align" with the 2026 presidential budget request. https://www.space.com/space-exploration/missions/nasa-project-leader-blames-next-generation-x-ray-telescope-cancellation-on-agency-mismanagement #NASA #Mismanagement #USGov #BudgetCuts #AXIA #Space #SpaceCraft #XRayTelescope #Astrophysics #Fail #ShitShow
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Can you say giant S_IT SHOW!
Turmoil resulting from "seismic shifts in NASA Management and in the Federal government has caused "sweeping workforce losses and operational instability throughout 2025", and has led to the cancellation of one of NASA's most important upcoming astrophysics missions to launch a next generation x-ray telescope.
The project has lost more than 20 personnel with key expertise as a result of NASA's Deferred Resignation Program and endless management reorganizations to "align" with the 2026 presidential budget request. https://www.space.com/space-exploration/missions/nasa-project-leader-blames-next-generation-x-ray-telescope-cancellation-on-agency-mismanagement #NASA #Mismanagement #USGov #BudgetCuts #AXIA #Space #SpaceCraft #XRayTelescope #Astrophysics #Fail #ShitShow
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Can you say giant S_IT SHOW!
Turmoil resulting from "seismic shifts in NASA Management and in the Federal government has caused "sweeping workforce losses and operational instability throughout 2025", and has led to the cancellation of one of NASA's most important upcoming astrophysics missions to launch a next generation x-ray telescope.
The project has lost more than 20 personnel with key expertise as a result of NASA's Deferred Resignation Program and endless management reorganizations to "align" with the 2026 presidential budget request. https://www.space.com/space-exploration/missions/nasa-project-leader-blames-next-generation-x-ray-telescope-cancellation-on-agency-mismanagement #NASA #Mismanagement #USGov #BudgetCuts #AXIA #Space #SpaceCraft #XRayTelescope #Astrophysics #Fail #ShitShow
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Can you say giant S_IT SHOW!
Turmoil resulting from "seismic shifts in NASA Management and in the Federal government has caused "sweeping workforce losses and operational instability throughout 2025", and has led to the cancellation of one of NASA's most important upcoming astrophysics missions to launch a next generation x-ray telescope.
The project has lost more than 20 personnel with key expertise as a result of NASA's Deferred Resignation Program and endless management reorganizations to "align" with the 2026 presidential budget request. https://www.space.com/space-exploration/missions/nasa-project-leader-blames-next-generation-x-ray-telescope-cancellation-on-agency-mismanagement #NASA #Mismanagement #USGov #BudgetCuts #AXIA #Space #SpaceCraft #XRayTelescope #Astrophysics #Fail #ShitShow
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Can you say giant S_IT SHOW!
Turmoil resulting from "seismic shifts in NASA Management and in the Federal government has caused "sweeping workforce losses and operational instability throughout 2025", and has led to the cancellation of one of NASA's most important upcoming astrophysics missions to launch a next generation x-ray telescope.
The project has lost more than 20 personnel with key expertise as a result of NASA's Deferred Resignation Program and endless management reorganizations to "align" with the 2026 presidential budget request. https://www.space.com/space-exploration/missions/nasa-project-leader-blames-next-generation-x-ray-telescope-cancellation-on-agency-mismanagement #NASA #Mismanagement #USGov #BudgetCuts #AXIA #Space #SpaceCraft #XRayTelescope #Astrophysics #Fail #ShitShow
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Union Points to Food Recalls Amidst Protests Over Inspection Agency Cuts
Unions say budget cuts to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency could lower food safety and lead to more recalls. They held a protest in Ottawa.
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Workers are worried that cuts to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency could make our food less safe. They held a protest to talk about these worries and ask for more support for food safety checks.
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Scottsdale school district to meet for vote on cuts
A Scottsdale Unified spokesperson said the district takes the Auditor General’s analysis seriously and has already begun taking action to address the risks. #schoolbudget #budgetcuts #education #arizona #schools #scottsdale #scottsdaleunified For more Local News from KPHO: For more YouTube Content:
https://fllics.com/en/video/scottsdale-school-district-to-meet-for-vote-on-cuts/
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Meta plans to cut up to 30% of its 2026 metaverse budget as Horizon Worlds and Quest VR underperform. The savings will boost AI, Reels, and messaging growth, improving profitability. Investors applaud Zuckerberg’s pragmatic shift over costly experimentation.
#Meta #MarkZuckerberg #Metaverse #HorizonWorlds #QuestVR #BudgetCuts #Techi
Read Full Article:- https://www.techi.com/meta-stock-rises-metaverse-budget-cuts/
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Trump Budget Cuts Silence NASA for a Month, Threatening Key Space Missions
#Artemis #BillNye #budgetcuts #donaldtrump #NASA
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Artificial intelligence, rising tuition discussed by educational leaders at UMD https://www.byteseu.com/1352919/ #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Budget #BudgetCuts #college #CollegeTuition #EDUCATION #future #HigherEducation #KBJR #NorthernNewsNow #panel #tuition #UOfM #umd #UniversityOfMinnesotaDuluth #Workplace
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WGCU: Extreme rainfall: Modernized database may be saved from budget cuts after public outcry and deadly Texas flooding. “A next-gen federal database designed to predict extreme rainfall that leads to dangerous flooding may be safe from federal budget cuts after all, despite being officially halted on July 10. A key scientist who was working on the NOAA-funded Atlas-15 project to modernize […]
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WGCU: Extreme rainfall: Modernized database may be saved from budget cuts after public outcry and deadly Texas flooding. “A next-gen federal database designed to predict extreme rainfall that leads to dangerous flooding may be safe from federal budget cuts after all, despite being officially halted on July 10. A key scientist who was working on the NOAA-funded Atlas-15 project to modernize […]
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WGCU: Extreme rainfall: Modernized database may be saved from budget cuts after public outcry and deadly Texas flooding. “A next-gen federal database designed to predict extreme rainfall that leads to dangerous flooding may be safe from federal budget cuts after all, despite being officially halted on July 10. A key scientist who was working on the NOAA-funded Atlas-15 project to modernize […]
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WGCU: Extreme rainfall: Modernized database may be saved from budget cuts after public outcry and deadly Texas flooding. “A next-gen federal database designed to predict extreme rainfall that leads to dangerous flooding may be safe from federal budget cuts after all, despite being officially halted on July 10. A key scientist who was working on the NOAA-funded Atlas-15 project to modernize […]
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WGCU: Extreme rainfall: Modernized database may be saved from budget cuts after public outcry and deadly Texas flooding. “A next-gen federal database designed to predict extreme rainfall that leads to dangerous flooding may be safe from federal budget cuts after all, despite being officially halted on July 10. A key scientist who was working on the NOAA-funded Atlas-15 project to modernize […]
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Chris Murphy exposes Senate Republicans' unprecedented move: enacting a partisan rescissions bill with just 50 votes! This shift undermines the tradition of bipartisan support in budgetary decisions, allowing significant cuts in line with Trump's agenda while sidestepping the filibuster requirement. Murphy reflects on the past budget negotiations that some feared could empower Trump further. Discover more details on this alarming political maneuver. read more https://crooksandliars.com/2025/07/chris-murphy-bashes-gop-dead-night-budget #ChrisMurphy #SenateRepublicans #BudgetCuts #PartisanPolitics #TrumpAdministration
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#NativeAmerican radio stations at risk as #USCongress looks to cut $1B in public broadcasting funding
By MARGERY A. BECK
Updated 12:06 AM EDT, July 16, 2025OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — "Dozens of Native American radio stations across the country vital to tribal communities will be at risk of going off the air if Congress cuts more than $1 billion from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, according to industry leaders.
"The U.S. Senate is set to vote this week on whether to approve the Department of Government Efficiency’s plan to rescind previously approved public broadcasting funding for 2026 and 2027. Fear is growing that most of the 59 tribal radio stations that receive the funding will go dark, depriving isolated populations of news, local events and critical weather alerts. The House already approved the cuts last month.
" 'For Indian Country in general, 80% of the communities are rural, and their only access to national news, native story sharing, community news, whatever it is, is through PBS stations or public radio,' said Francene Blythe-Lewis, CEO of the Lincoln, Nebraska-based Native American video programming producer Vision Maker Media. 'If the claw back happens, I would say a good 90% of those stations will cease to exist.'
"Native American communities rely on local radio stations
"Local radio plays an outsized role in the lives of many who live in Indigenous communities, where cable television and broadband internet access are spotty, at best, and nonexistent for many. That leaves over-the-air TV stations — usually a PBS station — and more often local radio to provide local news, community event details and music by Indigenous artists. Sometimes the news is delivered in Indigenous languages.
" 'It means we’re not going to hear our language on the radio,' Blythe-Lewis said.
"Flagstaff, Arizona-based #NativePublic #Media, which supports the network of 59 radio stations and three television stations serving tribal nations across the country, said about three dozen of those radio stations that rely heavily on Corporation for Public Broadcasting funding will be the first to go dark if funding is cut for the coming fiscal year that starts Oct. 1.
"Loris Taylor, CEO of Native Public Media, said in an op-ed that the tribal stations reach more than 1.5 million people and 'may be the only source of locally relevant news, emergency alerts, public safety announcements, language preservation, health information and election coverage.'
Republicans face pressure to pass the cuts
"GOP senators are under pressure from President Donald Trump, who promised last week on his Truth Social platform that any Republican who votes against the cuts 'will not have my support or Endorsement.' "
"Many Republicans say the public media system is politically biased and an unnecessary expense. Sen. Eric Schmitt, a Republican from Missouri, recently defended the cuts as necessary to hack away at the nearly $37 trillion national debt, adding, 'It is critical in restoring trust in government.'
"But some Republicans have pushed back, such as Maine Sen. #SusanCollins, who questioned the proposed cuts last month during a Senate committee hearing. She said that while some of the federal money is assigned to National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting System, most of it goes to locally owned public radio and television stations."
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Add #SovereignTribalNations to the list of 25 states resisting #Trump's #BudgetCuts !
#NativeCommunities could lose $24.5B under #Trump administration proposal
If upheld by the courts, the proposed freeze on #FederalGrants would affect nearly every tribeby Amelia Schafer
Excerpt: " 'Nearly all Tribes would be affected by a federal grant freeze, with many facing the prospect of losing tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars — funding that is critical for supporting some of the most historically underserved communities in the United States,' the report concluded.
" 'When the federal government withholds funding from #Tribes and #NativeAmerican people, it’s not just a policy change. It’s a violation of those commitments — putting essential services at risk and undermining Tribal governing capacity.'
"A federal appeals court will decide if the administration has the legal authority to mass-suspend the grants, with arguments set in coming months in a lawsuit filed by the state of New York against President Donald Trump and his top administrators.
" 'as litigation around OMB’s funding freeze continues, it is essential that federal decisionmakers recognize the unique basis of funding for Tribes and #NativeAmerican people,' the report states. 'Funding to #IndianCountry is rooted in longstanding, legally-binding agreements between the United States and sovereign Tribal nations — not race, climate, or DEI.'
"At the beginning of President Donald Trump’s second term, the OMB issued a sweeping order announcing a halt to federal grants nationwide, throwing tribal programs into turmoil.
"Although the grant freeze was temporarily halted, the administration continues to push for its implementation, and tribes continue to report difficulties in accessing the already-approved funds, the report notes.
"The bulk of the at-risk funding is dispersed through programs such as the Department of Health and Human Services [#DHHS], the Bureau of Indian Affairs [#BIA] and the Bureau of Indian Education under the Department of the Interior, the Department of Commerce and the #EnvironmentalProtectionAgency.
"If the funding freeze clears legal hurdles, critical projects across the country will be at risk, the Brookings report said. These projects include a $35 million grant to the #OglalaSioux Tribe for #broadband development, a $3 million grant to urban #NativeHealth board for community health worker training, and a $200,000 grant to the #Chickahominy Indian Tribe for preliminary #engineering and #environmental work towards a #childcare center.
" 'This is the building block of how the U.S. government pays back tribes for the land it took,' Maxim said.
"The report does not include the sweeping cuts approved under Trump’s so-called '#BigBeautifulBill' by Congress, which includes cuts to #Medicaid, #FoodStamps and other social programs that include Native people as well as others, Brookings officials said.
"The Brookings Institution is a nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization based in Washington, D.C. Maxim co-authored the report with Glencora Haskins, research associate and applied research manager."
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https://ictnews.org/news/tribes-could-lose-24-5b-under-trump-administration-proposal/#TribalSovereignty #CulturalGenocide #RespectTheTreaties #TrumpLies #TrumpBudgetCuts #USPol #TrumpSucks #FirstNations #StolenLand #LandBack #NativeAmericanNews #NativeCommunities
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'If I wasn't here, people could die': Trump public media cuts could hit rural America
Thomas Copeland, BBC World Service
July 15, 2025"A gale-force storm hit north-eastern #Alaska last winter. Residents of #Kotzebue, a town of about 3,000, are used to polar conditions, so Desiree Hagan still had to get to work.
" 'The snow was so intense you could not see in front of you,' Ms Hagan remembers. 'I was walking backwards to work.'
"Ms Hagan is a reporter at a public radio station, #KOTZ, which airs across Kotzebue and its 12 surrounding villages.
She also happens to be the only US journalist stationed inside the Arctic Circle, so as the storm intensified, she had to get on the air." 'It's go time, I have to report on this,' recalls Ms Hagan. 'We have to make sure we know where people can go. Oh, the electric is out. Okay, now the airport is flooded.'
" 'Winter is not a joke here, it is life and death,' she tells the BBC. 'As a reporter I try not to make emotional statements like, if I wasn't here, people could die, but that is a reality.'
"On the other side of the country in #WashingtonDC, however, a historic vote could bring federal support for KOTZ to an end.
"The Senate must decide by the end of the week whether to claw back $1.1bn (£800m) from the #CorporationForPublicBroadcasting, the body that distributes federal funding to public radio and television stations.
"While the #PublicMedia cuts are part of a broad spending package, which includes requests to rescind $8.3bn from the United States Agency for International Development and other foreign aid programmes, they are especially dear to President Donald Trump, who frequently accuses media of bias."The president has now threatened to pull his support from any Republican senator who does not support the cuts.
" 'It is very important that all Republicans adhere to my Recissions Bill and, in particular, DEFUND THE CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING (PBS and NPR), which is worse than CNN & MSDNC put together,' Trump posted on Truth Social Thursday night.
"Executives at National Public Radio (#NPR) and the Public Broadcasting System (#PBS) reject accusations of bias and say they abide by all journalistic standards.
"Republican voters, however, are about three times less likely than Democrats to consume or trust news coverage from either outlet, according to the Pew Research Center.
"While the cuts will affect national broadcasters like NPR and PBS, more than 70% of federal funding goes to local media stations and about 45% of the stations that received funding in 2023 are in rural areas.
"For half of those rural stations, federal grants made up a quarter or more of their revenue. At KOTZ in Kotzebue, public funding constitutes 41% of its income.
" 'By no means is it assured of being passed in the Senate, where many of the Republican senators represent rural states that really do benefit from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting,' Democratic congressman Dan Goldman, co-chair of the Public Broadcasting Caucus, told the BBC World Service's Weekend programme.
"Republican Senator #LisaMurkowski of Alaska has said she opposes the cuts to public media stations, warning that "what may seem like a frivolous expense to some has proven to be an invaluable resource that saves lives in Alaska".
'Almost to a number, they're saying that they will go under if public broadcasting funds are no longer available to them,' Murkowski told a Senate hearing last month. "Read more:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c20w51rkw4no?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-usArchived version:
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On July 5, as floodwaters were starting to recede, #FEMA received 3,027 calls from disaster survivors & answered 3,018, or ~99.7%, documents show. Contractors w/ 4 call center companies answered the vast majority of the calls.
That evening, however, #KristiNoem did not renew the contracts w/ the 4 companies & hundreds of contractors were fired….
#Trump #idiocracy #ExtremeWeather #floods #Texas #FederalGovernment #Funding #MassLayoffs #BudgetCuts
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After #floods, #hurricanes & other #disasters, survivors can call #FEMA to apply for different types of financial assistance. People who have lost their homes, for instance, can apply for a one-time payment of $750 that can help cover their immediate needs, such as food or other supplies.
#Trump #idiocracy #ExtremeWeather #floods #Texas #FederalGovernment #Funding #MassLayoffs #BudgetCuts
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The details on the unanswered calls on July 6, which have not been previously reported, come as #FEMA faces intense scrutiny over its response to the #floods in #Texas that have killed >120 people. The agency, which #Trump has called for eliminating, has been *slow* to activate certain teams that coordinate response & search-&-rescue efforts.
#idiocracy #ExtremeWeather #FederalGovernment #Funding #MassLayoffs #BudgetCuts
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#FEMA laid off the contractors on July 5 after their contracts expired & were not extended…. [Dog killer] #DHS secy #KristiNoem instituted a new requirement that she personally approve expenses over $100k. She did not renew the contracts until Thurs, 5 days after the contracts expired.
#Trump #idiocracy #ExtremeWeather #floods #Texas #FederalGovernment #Funding #MassLayoffs #BudgetCuts
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2 days after catastrophic #floods roared through Central #Texas, #FEMA did not answer nearly ⅔ of calls to its #disaster assistance line, acc/to documents reviewed by NYT.
The lack of responsiveness happened because the agency had #fired hundreds of contractors at call centers….
#Trump #idiocracy #ExtremeWeather #FederalGovernment #Funding #MassLayoffs #BudgetCuts
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/climate/fema-missed-calls-texas-floods.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare -
The #billionaire also ran a financial firm, which he left in the control of his sons, that stands to benefit if #Trump’s admin follows through on a decade-long #Republican effort to #privatize govt #weather #forecasting.
Deadly #flooding in central #Texas has drawn a spotlight to #BudgetCuts & #MassLayoffs at the #NWS & the #NOAA, 2 agencies housed within the #Commerce Dept that provide the public w/ #free #climate & weather data that can be crucial during #NaturalDisasters.
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Heather Cox Richardson reveals a controversial Senate budget reconciliation bill passed with a 50-50 vote, where Vice President J.D. Vance cast the tie-breaking vote. Opposition stemmed from tax cuts favoring the wealthy while slashing Medicaid and food security. Notably, the bill allocates $170.7 billion for immigration enforcement. Richardson's insightful analysis exposes the potential threat to democracy and legal accountability. For more details, click the link to the full article. #Immigration #SenateVote #BudgetCuts [Source](https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/july-1-2025)
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#Mentallyill, #detained and alone. Trump #budgetcuts forces #immigrants to fight in #solitude
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CW: Pol, weather forecasts & preparedness
On the one hand, I do get that cutting the budget to satellites that are used for #weather forecasting does cut back on their standard usage of that to give said forecasts, but on the other hand those forecasts haven't been more accurate than a coin toss to start with and as there's not even a plan set out there by any government entity nor sizable NGO to make emergency shelters #DisabledAccessible to the % of the population that's disabled nor to have them opened with enough time for disabled to go to said shelters, I'm not sure how much if any of a real "problem" this is.
I overall view it as more of an uncovering of a big mess set, than a mess itself thusly.
#WeatherForecasting #ReplicabilityProblem #meteorology #DisabilityAccesssibility #BudgetCuts
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Paul Krugman highlights a looming threat posed by a potential second Trump administration to American science and intellectual pursuits. The MAGA coalition's anti-science stance, budget cuts to crucial research funding, and attempts to politicize science risk undermining America's technological leadership and attracting global talent. This erosion could significantly weaken the country's intellectual and economic strength. Read the full article for insights on this critical issue. https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/nobody-expected-the-maga-inquisition #PaulKrugman #AmericanScience #MAGA #ScientificIntegrity #BudgetCuts
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Cornell Chronicle: Research at risk: Protecting national defense from cyberattacks. “Their interdisciplinary research team commissioned a new cyber test range; initiated industry partnerships; and developed case studies about cyberattacks that have infiltrated chip supply chains (CrowdStrike, Stuxnet and Operation Grim Beeper are a few well-known examples). But in April, a stop-work order […]
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Portland students raise funds with gardening class amid budget concerns https://www.allforgardening.com/1290180/portland-students-raise-funds-with-gardening-class-amid-budget-concerns/ #BudgetCuts #CommunitySupport #FoodBank #fundraising #garden #gardening #GardeningClass #PlantSale #PortlandPublicSchools #seedlings
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Portland students raise funds with gardening class amid budget concerns https://www.allforgardening.com/1290180/portland-students-raise-funds-with-gardening-class-amid-budget-concerns/ #BudgetCuts #CommunitySupport #FoodBank #fundraising #garden #gardening #GardeningClass #PlantSale #PortlandPublicSchools #seedlings
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🚨 The Trump administration swings its budget-cutting axe at the CDC's STD lab, because who needs science when you have Twitter debates? 🤦♂️ It's not like STDs are a problem or anything – just a minor inconvenience, right? 🙄
https://www.statnews.com/2025/04/05/cdc-sexually-transmitted-diseases-laboratory-closed-by-trump-administration/ #TrumpAdministration #CDC #BudgetCuts #STDLab #ScienceDebate #PublicHealth #HackerNews #ngated -
Focus on what you CAN do, not what you CAN’T
In these past few weeks it seems that there were so many horrible things happening that just making a list of them feels overwhelming and exhausting. Some of the decisions of the current U.S. government have an impact on the global level, others hit people personally, some of whom are close friends. And then, there are those who seem to target the very core of our profession, like the shutting down of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and the termination of grants already awarded by the National Endowment of the Humanities (NEH).
It is hard not to lose all hope in this climate. And yet, aren’t we, as museum professionals, used to things not really looking pretty? Haven’t we battled budget and staff cuts before? Haven’t we brought uncomfortable truths in front of the eyes of our visitors and politicians before? Maybe the current crisis is not comparable to what we were confronted with before. But just as well, we are well trained in going against adversarial circumstances.
We have always done so with resilience, creativity, and, most of all, a sense of community. We might be spread out across the world and we might have spread ourselves thin by taking on too many responsibilities, but we are not alone. I have reached out to my network over the past few days to check in on some people, see how they are coping, and getting ideas of what can be done, because, in the end, focusing on what can’t be done never made anything better.
Turns out that John E. Simmons had already started collecting what can be done to prepare for what is coming at us in something we registrars love: A list.
I contributed a few of my thoughts to it and we also asked some more colleagues to add to it. What I am posting here today is by no means a comprehensive and finalized list of what to think about and what to do, but it is a start. Feel free to add more ideas in the comments section, just like we enhance it going forward.
What Can We Do?
1. Apply the lessons that museums learned from Covid
- A museum should have a plan for suddenly shutting down or having to reduce staff for a prolonged long period of time.
- The plan should include cross-training for all staff so that a reduced staff can keep the institution functioning and care for the collections. Every staff member should be trained to do tasks that are normally not part of their duties so that they can help in the event of a prolonged emergency.
- The plan should include what the museum can do to remain a destination for visitors during a crisis. This might include regulating the number of visitors in the museum at the any one time during a pandemic, reducing or eliminating admission fees for visitors during a prolonged financial crisis, and how responsibilities could be handled by a reduced staff. It is worth noting that a recent study revealed that art museums that charge admission spend an average of $100 per visitor but attract smaller audiences than free museums, and that there are costs associated with collecting admission fees that may not be recovered by the fee. Details can be found at https://news.artnet.com/art-world/us-museums-visitors-report-2622358).
2. Prepare the collections for long-term, low maintenance storage by preparing the most sustainable and passive storage environment possible:
- Improve the effectiveness of the collection storage furniture, containers, and supports to protect the collections (e.g., replace gaskets on doors, eliminate acidic materials, reduce lighting and UV in storage).
- Keep the collection in order (each object in its proper place in storage) at all times (do not allow a backlog of out-of-place objects to build up).
- Improve environmental controls and environmental monitoring procedures.
- Maintain storage environment equipment in good order (e.g. replace filters, service equipment regularly, replace aging HVAC systems).
3. Protect the databases
- Make sure that you have a fully up-to-date, readable copy of all important museum databases stored somewhere outside of the building, preferably in a hard format as well as electronic.
- Make sure that both on-site and off-site databases are protected so they cannot be accessed by unauthorized personnel. Renew passwords and other project on a frequent, regular basis.
- If the institution is forced to close, and you have a good backup copy, consider removing databases from the museum servers to protect confidential information.
- When possible look into storing backup copies of your databases that are not only readable in a proprietary format of one vendor (who might be forced to hand your sensitive data over or might go out of business). If you database allows for it, export your important data as SQL tables or as comma separated values (.csv). Excel formats such as xlsx, xls, or ods are fine, too.
- When possible move your sensitive data to trusted servers outside the U.S. that don’t belong to U.S. based companies who might be forced to hand your sensitive data over or delete your data. (This one is of course controversial, but at this point I wouldn’t trust AWS for example)
- As a rule of thumb: make access to your data for your trusted staff as easy as possible, but make deleting data from your database hard by setting up a robust rights management and whenever possible enable procedures to revert to earlier data entry points.
4. Update the institutional emergency preparedness plan to include procedures for coping with sudden, prolonged shutdowns of the building.
5. Stock up on critical supplies
6. Download anything needed from federal websites (such as the NPS Museum Handbook and Conserve O Grams or IMLS reports) immediately, while the information is still available. Store this data in a safe place that is only accessible to authorized personnel and make deleting those resources as hard as possible.
7. Keep in mind that most serious problem going forward will probably not be the cuts in federal funding to the NIH, NEA, NSF, IMLS, etc., because most of this money goes to projects which can be postponed or funded by other sources (such as donations). The most serious problem will be the lack of funds resulting from damage done to the economy due to a combination of the rising deficit, increasing unemployment (e.g., the mass reductions in the federal workforce and corresponding loss of jobs in sectors that serve the federal workforce), and decreased tax revenues due to tax cuts for the wealthy, tariffs on imports, and cuts to social services. In other words, the predicted problems with the US economy are far more likely to be a bigger problem for museums than the loss of federal grant funds.
Words of Cheer:
- Museums existed long before the IMLS and other federal granting agencies, so they can survive this period, although many worthy projects and much research will be halted unless alternative funding can be found.
- With preparation, museums can survive the coming crisis as they have survived other crises. There will be staff reductions and loss of opportunities, but with any luck, the situation will change within a few years.
- Take a good look at your policies and procedures and investigate new laws and executive orders you are confronted with. Laws that are passed in a great hurry often contain contradictions and loopholes. Often asking for clarifications by authorities can slow processes down and work to your advantage. Often stalling a process in good faith can be much more effective than open opposition which puts you and your staff at risk.
- Be prepared to be patient. Lawsuits and judicial decisions challenging the proposed changes will take time to go through the courts.
- In the longer term, climate change and its effects on museum operations, the economy, and the behavior of the public is the greatest challenge to the future of museums, so the present crisis should be used to prepare for the future.
Best Advice:
If your institution does not have a plan for long-term survival during a financial crisis, the next pandemic, or climate change, get busy now to correct this deficit.
Helpful Information
- Learnings museums made from the Covid-19 pandemic, https://www.ne-mo.org/news-events/article/learnings-museums-made-from-the-covid-19-pandemic
- PEAS Resource Library (Promoting Exhibit Access and Safety), https://ncp.si.edu/PRICE-PEAS
- Snider, Julianne. 2024. The Wheel is Already Invented: Planning for the Next Crisis. Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals 20(2):347-359, DOI: 10.1177/15501906241232309
- Living in a Wild Future (Center for the Future of Museums blog), https://www.aam-us.org/2025/03/04/living-in-a-wild-future/
- Decrease in Public Funding? A Worldwide Answer from Museums (ICOM), https://icom.museum/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/IRAPFM-A4-Format_FINAL.pdf
- Susana Smith Bautista (2021)—How to Close a Museum. A Practical Guide (Rowman & Littlefield)
- Christopher J. Garthe (2023)—The Sustainable Museum. How Museums Contribute to the Great Transformation (Routledge)
Some more notes
Share this resource freely with anyone you think needs to see this, no need to ask for permission. Add what applies to your special case. Let us know what we should add. Download, save, print, circulate.
Registrar Trek is hosted on a server in Germany and following EU laws. I am currently looking through all the plug-ins I use to make sure none of them collects and shares any personal data with the U.S. Or, in fact, anybody. I always was mindful not to collect any personal information but will double-check again if everything is safe.
Hang on in there, you are not alone!
#BudgetCuts #collectionsManagement #documentation #grantErasure #grants #IMLS #museum #NEH #preparingForShutdown #registrar
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🎪 In today's episode of "Guess-What-Gets-Defunded-Next," the US administration has decided that $11B for #addiction and mental health care is better suited for the imaginary budget surplus. Because who needs mental health when you have chaos? 🤪💸
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/27/nx-s1-5342368/addiction-trump-mental-health-funding #mentalhealth #funding #chaos #budgetcuts #defunding #HackerNews #ngated -
TU Delft will join the relay strike on 24 April!
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We are protesting the announced budget cuts of 1.2 billion euros on higher education in the Netherlands. This means that we have to cut about 10-20% of our budget.
Please join us in letting Eppo Bruins know that these budget cuts are unacceptable!
#WOInActie #HigherEducation #Eppocalypse #Strike #BudgetCuts #AcademicMastodon #AcademicChatter #EppoBruins #KabinetSchoof #TUDelft #HetKabinetSlooptHetHogerOnderwijs #HogerOnderwijs #FNV #AOB #VSSD #Unionise #Unionize
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Today employees of the #UniversityofAmsterdam #UvA are on #strike to protest against the budget cuts for education that are pushed by our far right government.
Universities are a place of wonder, curiosity and resistance.
This world is in desperate need of all of these things.
Update: there were 5000 of us today. And a student and I even made it to the main newspaper pic. 💅
#WOInActie #HOInActie #FNV #AOB #Onderwijsbezuinigingen #BudgetCuts @[email protected] @[email protected]
