The Trump administration has introduced a budget that would cut all funding for the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities: organizations that promote innovative and creative expression, cultural and artistic understanding, and scholarly research as a basis for an informed democracy.

Join with PEN America, Daily Kos and other allies to help protect the arts and humanities.

Urge Congress to reject any budget that defunds the NEA and NEH:

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Call your members of Congress.

If your senators and representative aren't saved in your phone yet, text your zip code to 520-200-2223. You'll immediately get a text back with everyone's contact info, INCLUDING your STATE senator and assembly member. 

We need an informed democracy now more than ever, as well as access to artistic outlets to help us get through these tough times. To cope with the administration’s hate, we need art’s power to communicate — and foster cultural understanding and empathy.

Defunding the NEA and NEH would essentially kill these organizations.  Meanwhile, Trump is spending the third weekend in a row vacationing at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida — and each of these trips is costing taxpayers approximately $3 million.

Some perspective: The combined budget for the NEA and NEH is $148 million.¹ 

Trump's hypocrisy is nauseating.