President Trump’s plan to zero out the budgets for 19 federal agencies will undoubtedly run into three significant obstacles: Congress, logistical complexity and history.
His new budget proposal to eliminate such relatively small agencies as the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting includes targets that have long been in the crosshairs of conservative budget hawks. The agencies’ defenders on Capitol Hill are practiced in making the case for how those agencies serve the public.
