re: $25 million in Stimulus Package to the Kennedy Arts Center

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$25 million in Stimulus Package to the Kennedy Arts Center

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frick these bitches .... Guys take their fricking money and run every damn last dollar of it, get all you can because if not they will just waste it and come back for more taxes to get what they want and line their pockets with your money!.... frick every last fricking slimey arse democrat on this damn beautiful planet!!!

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LIHEAP

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latino
immigrants
heating
eating
and
polluting?

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If art can't sustain itself on its own merit...it shouldn't exist.

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You can apply this flippant non-reasoning to each and every business getting money under this bill.

This is the kind of nonsense you get when you vote for dims. Remember this in November.

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president signed it?

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Not yet...

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It employs real people and it will be shut down for much longer than almost anyone else.

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Oh sure. Because it takes plenty of hard working people to stand around and make sure the art doesn't fall off the wall...or that someone doesn't run off with it.

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$30.75 billion for grants to provide emergency support to local school systems and higher education institutions to continue to provide educational services to students and support the ongoing functionality of school districts and institutions.

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Uh...how about having schools donate the money they would have spent on the semester to the nation's pot? Schools are literally out. The students are at home. Ridiculous.

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Piss in a jar and call it art. The NEA will probably buy it for 50k

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Hell, put a picture of Trump in the jar and then piss on it and the NEA will up that amount to 100k.

right out the gate there isn't enough money for the 2020 election

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Coronavirus response includes $400 million in election assistance. Will it be enough?

A sweeping federal spending package responding to the new coronavirus pandemic will include millions to help states administer elections, but some fear it will not be enough to prevent chaos in November.

The enormous spending bill expected to be released Wednesday morning will include $400 million in election assistance, according to two sources who have seen a summary of the bill from appropriators. That figure is still a fraction of the $2 billion the Brennan Center for Justice estimated is necessary for states to prepare for a surge of voters casting ballots by mail and to ensure safe in-person voting.

Ben Hovland, the chairman of the Election Assistance Commission, said on Tuesday before the deal was announced that it is difficult to determine how much federal assistance is necessary to prepare states for November.

“From what I've been hearing from state and local election officials around the country, I think the number is closer to $2 billion," he added.

Election officials are already scrambling to adjust to the pandemic, postponing primaries and stressing absentee voting options so voters can avoid polling places. To curb the spread of the virus, public health officials have recommended gatherings not exceed 10 people.

House Democrats initially proposed $4 billion in election assistance, while Senate Republicans proposed $140 million. Democrats were also pushing for additional provisions, such as requiring states to allow up to 15 days of early voting and provide no-excuse vote-by-mail options.

Elections are traditionally the domain of states, and Republicans had complained that the provisions in the House Democrats’ bill — which were contained in another election overhaul bill the House passed last year that has gone nowhere in the Senate — were an attempt to usurp that power.

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