Romney Announces Plans to Reduce National Arts Funding

According to The Huffington Post, GOP candidate Mitt Romney said that he would reduce National Arts funding by half. He would "'enact deep reductions'" in cultural and art grantmaking agencies, such as the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities."

"Romney offered up his budget suggestions despite the fact that the NEA and NEH receive about $155 million annually, among smallest agency appropriations in the federal budget."

This is not the first time Romney has tried to cut cultural agency funding. As governor of Massachusetts in 2006, he "tried to veto the creation of a Cultural Facilities Fund, which aids nonprofit arts, scientific and historical organization in construction costs. Legislature overrode the veto and $37 million has been granted by the state under the program."

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