Summary
The Trump administration abruptly cut funding to the Institute of Museum and Library Services, which provides over $160 million annually to U.S. libraries. Elon Musk’s DOGE teams executed the cuts, immediately terminating dozens of state library grants.
Officials in California, Connecticut, and Washington were first notified, affecting programs that support rural and underserved communities.
Library leaders call the move “devastating.” Congressional Democrats and publishers condemned the decision, warning it could cause mass library closures.
This just a domino in a long line of domino’s. They’ve now cut forever chemical bans, water quality requirements, medical research funding, housing for low incoming families funds, pulled critical vaccine research, and more. That’s just off the top of my head. At this point, what is the benefit of being a part of the Union? There needs to be a net benefit for us to continue existing within the larger U.S. system.
It’s starting to seem like these people are trying to speed run a U.S. break-up ala Soviet Union back in the 90s.