House Republicans join fight to save NEA

Bipartisan support continues to mount for the National Endowment for the Arts, which the Trump administration targeted for the axe along with 18 other independent agencies in its first budget proposal. Thirty-two members of the House of Representatives, including 11 Republicans, have signed a letter urging an increase to the agencys funding from around $148m to $155m in 2018.
The signatories, led by the Houses Arts Caucus co-chairs Louise M. Slaughter (Democrat, New York) and Leonard Lance (Rep