After a stretch of uncertainty in May in which its leader and another director were removed by President Donald Trump, the Library of Congress is again under fire, though this time from congressional appropriators looking to take a chunk from the institution’s budget.
A spending proposal from House Republicans would lop off roughly 10 percent of funding for the nation’s library in the coming fiscal year, threatening staff and concerning the library’s defenders who see it as the latest Trump attack on cultural institutions.
“We’re going to strenuously object to any cuts in the Library of Congress or the legislative branch,” Rep. Joseph D. Morelle, D-N.Y., a member of the House Appropriations Committee and ranking member of the House Administration Committee, said Tuesday. “I think there should be more resources devoted to the Article 1 branch of the Constitution.”
