Trump war on history

Art News - For fiscal year 2027, the White House has proposed giving the Smithsonian $961.3 million in federal funding, roughly an 11 precent cut from the $1.08 billion Congress provided to it fiscal year 2026 and the institution’s lowest proposed funding level since at least 2020.

The reductions would fall most heavily on facilities spending, which would drop by about 21 percent from $152 million in fiscal 2026 to $120 million under the new proposal, reducing it from roughly one-seventh to about one-eighth of the Smithsonian’s overall budget….

The proposal would reduce the Smithsonian’s federally funded staffing by about 6 percent, cutting the equivalent of full-time positions from 4,047 in fiscal 2026 to 3,804 under the fiscal 2027 request. It would also cut the salaries and expenses account by $87.2 million, bringing it from $928.5 million in the current fiscal year to $841.3 million.

…. President Trump has kept the Smithsonian in the headlines for months as a target of his second administration’s push against what it calls “anti-American” interpretations of history. her patriotism. Hartig defended the museum’s scholarship as “fact-based” and said it was committed to telling a complex story of America through “competing perspectives.”….

President Trump’s second term has already brought major proposed cuts to the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the National Park Service.