This quote just says it all about how DOGE operates and what their real motives are:
> “There is no efficiency argument when IMLS represents just 0.0046% of the federal budget, while museums generate $50 billion in economic impact,” the American Alliance of Museums wrote in a statement.
Elon can’t “gut” local libraries—local libraries are run by municipal governments and receive almost all their funding from there.
Total U.S. public library and museum spending is almost $14 billion: https://wordsrated.com/library-funding-statistics. This agency distributes about $250 million in federal support, which also supports museums.
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The IMLS has a $313 million annual budget and about 70 employees. Its stated goal is to “advance, support, and empower America’s museums, libraries, and related organizations through grantmaking, research, and policy development.
Local libraries are mostly funded by local tax dollars, but the funding they do get from the federal government goes towards things like employee training and technology updates. This is especially critical in more remote areas.
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IMLS activities don't directly fund most libraries and museums but the training, surveys, but they have an impact on the quality of libraries and museums all over our country.
I'd encourage HN readers to read about the work of IMLS directly:
I'm somewhat involved in local government in Chicagoland and so know where to look to get this figure: federal grants make up 0.2% of the Oak Park Public Library budget. Rayiner is right about this.
I swear if they start cutting books and exhibits about things specifically musk dislikes and we don’t see comparisons to book burnings, I’m going to lose all faith in the people of this country.
This quote just says it all about how DOGE operates and what their real motives are:
> “There is no efficiency argument when IMLS represents just 0.0046% of the federal budget, while museums generate $50 billion in economic impact,” the American Alliance of Museums wrote in a statement.
Elon can’t “gut” local libraries—local libraries are run by municipal governments and receive almost all their funding from there.
Total U.S. public library and museum spending is almost $14 billion: https://wordsrated.com/library-funding-statistics. This agency distributes about $250 million in federal support, which also supports museums.
As per the article:
""" The IMLS has a $313 million annual budget and about 70 employees. Its stated goal is to “advance, support, and empower America’s museums, libraries, and related organizations through grantmaking, research, and policy development.
Local libraries are mostly funded by local tax dollars, but the funding they do get from the federal government goes towards things like employee training and technology updates. This is especially critical in more remote areas.
"""
IMLS activities don't directly fund most libraries and museums but the training, surveys, but they have an impact on the quality of libraries and museums all over our country.
I'd encourage HN readers to read about the work of IMLS directly:
https://www.imls.gov
Or at least until the DOGE-ies destroy and/or censor the IMLS website (probably in progress).
I'm somewhat involved in local government in Chicagoland and so know where to look to get this figure: federal grants make up 0.2% of the Oak Park Public Library budget. Rayiner is right about this.
Where does funding have to come from for him to be able to gut an institution?
The guy literally wants everyone to be stupid.
I swear if they start cutting books and exhibits about things specifically musk dislikes and we don’t see comparisons to book burnings, I’m going to lose all faith in the people of this country.
> I’m going to lose all faith in the people of this country.
Why would you still, at this point, have any faith in them? lol
People come out to physically counter protest Nazi groups.
Idk why that energy doesn’t come out during elections.
So, the entire federal government is a set of corporations that can all be found on Dunn & Bradstreet. 28 U.S. Code § 3002(15)(A) https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/28/3002
The parent corporation is under chapter 11 bankruptcy, which requires a full audit and liquidation of it and its subsidiaries.
This explains why various judges have been shut down from preventing Trump from his actions - he is acting under orders from the bankruptcy court.
what a perfect headline, nothing but the truth