Bravo for him. The federal government has NO constitutional authority to spend my tax money on the arts, and whatever the Constitution does not allow the federal government, it forbids and reserves to the several states. This is made clear in the parsimonious language of Article I, Section 8 as well as clarified in the forgotten Tenth Amendment.
What the federal government does have authority -- even a mandate -- to do in Article IV, Section 4 is to protect the states from invasion. As such, if Trump wants to slash funding for the arts in order to provide more funding for a border wall, he is doing a bang-up job of discharging his constitutional duties as president.
The fact that many Americans excoriate Trump for doing such things is a measure of just how ignorant and degraded they have become.
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