Impacts of NEA Grant Cuts

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🗓️ 16 May 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

How arts organizations are reacting to the Trump administration cutting grant funding from the National Endowment for the Arts.

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0:00.0	It's the Brian Laris show on WNYC.
0:13.2	Happy Friday, everybody.
0:14.9	Today on the show, we have some special Friday guests, Washington Post columnist
0:18.3	Jonathan Capehart, who many of you know better as an MSNBC host
0:22.8	or from the David Brooks and Jonathan Capehart segment on the PBS News Hour on Friday nights.
0:28.9	Many of you watch that, I know.
0:30.8	Jonathan has a very interesting memoir just out that includes growing up in New Jersey,
0:35.6	why he quit the Washington Post editorial board,
0:38.7	how he started his media career right here at WNIC when he's just out of college.
0:43.8	I knew him then.
0:44.8	And we'll do some news of the day with Jonathan Capehart coming up.
0:47.8	Also, the beloved New York Mets television announcer, Gary Cohn, joins us today ahead of the subway series this weekend.
0:55.5	Gary Cohn is so fun and smart.
0:57.7	People love him, even if they're not baseball fans.
1:00.8	And we'll have another 10 question quiz for this membership drive day.
1:04.4	More questions from the actual U.S. Citizenship Test Study Guide.
1:08.8	Even if you grew up in the United States, could you pass the citizenship
1:12.8	test today? We'll have WNYC swag as prizes again if you get two in a row right. So Jonathan
1:20.1	Capehart, Gary Cohen, a 10 question quiz all coming up, but here's where we start. In our spring
1:25.3	membership drive, we've been obviously talking about the proposed
1:28.4	defunding of public media, but I want to pull back, not for a fundraising pitch, but for a news
1:35.0	segment on the bigger picture of how the Trump administration is trying to defund the arts
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