Libraries - executive order on Friday, March 14th eliminates a major funding source

[SupportSanity]

The Institute of Museum and Library Services - executive order on Friday, March 14th eliminates this institution.

This institution gives over $200 million to libraries across the country, providing free access to news outlets, journalists, & historical newspaper databases. GONE

This is one of a number of institutions being told to shut down to it's barest minimum.
(i) the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service;
(ii) the United States Agency for Global Media;
(iii) the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in the Smithsonian Institution;
(iv) the Institute of Museum and Library Services;
(v) the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness;
(vi) the Community Development Financial Institutions Fund; and
(vii) the Minority Business Development Agency.

This executive order comes out Friday and coincidently misses the news cycle.

Link to the whitehouse.gov website announcing this:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/continuing-the-reduction-of-the-federal-bureaucracy/

[snot]

1. K&R'd &

Bookmarked.

[Swede]

2. He just keeps chipping away at the institutions of government.

What a horrible human being.

[Cha]

18. You called him "human"... that's debatable.

sub·hu·man
adjective
of a lower order of being than the human.

Gargoyle

[Timeflyer]

3. He making the country to be as miserable and stupid as he is.

[SheltieLover]

4. Can't have people readin' an' writin' now.

Remember, he "loves the uneducated."

Fuck him.

[Harker]

8. Twice. n/t

[SheltieLover]

12. Yup!

[Harker]

13. ...

[Wiz Imp]

5. While I haven't utilized a local library in many years, there are a large number

of libraries in my area which hold book/media sales once, twice or even four times a year to make up for funding shortfalls they already face.

As an avid collector of music, I frequent these sales often looking to pick up good music while doing my part to support the local libraries. In addition, For the last five years, I've donated large amounts of books, CDs & DVDs to some of these sales so they can resell them and make some money. It sucks that many libraries have to do this to survive, but I encourage everyone I know to both donate what they can and to attend a sale where you can often pick up great bargains.

This is only going to make things worse for the libraries. Hopefully, most will be able to tap alternate funding sources to survive. Libraries provide an essential service to society.

[mtngirl47]

6. I hate him and everyone who voted for him. n/t

[Emile]

7. My wife and I both utilize our local library a lot.

It would be devastating to us to lose our small rural library.

[pfitz59]

9. The richest man of his generation, Carnegie

Built and endowed hundreds if not thousands of libraries. My how the mega rich have fallen.

[Baron2024]

10. This Is The Destruction Of American Civilization

It is the death of a thousand cuts. We are entering a modern dark age unless something stops Trump.

[Ford_Prefect]

11. My simple reading of the institute's history says it was Congress which authorized it and AFAIK only Congress can

remove it. Perhaps this is one more distortion of Presidential authority beyond the bounds of law and reason?

[NJCher]

15. thanksl Ford_Prefect

I was just about to post this.

The dummy just keeps doing this executive order thing and forces another lawsuit on to the DOJ, who is already reeling from all the suits they have to handle because he's so effing stupid he can't get this division of power thing through his big square block head.

You just watch: librarians will sue in a heartbeat.

[NoMoreRepugs]

14. Reading is obviously overrated.

[littlemissmartypants]

17. Eventually...

Everything will revert to memes, widgits or only emoticons as we lose our capacity to think critically.

[LoisB]

16. That ignoramus has probably never been in a library. What is the point of this and whose

idea was it? He is destroying institutions he doesn't even know exist.

[Hekate]

19. KnR

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[electric_blue68]

20. 😑 🤬

[NJCher]

21. I just checked the Litigation Tracker

And while I did not expect to find a suit this fast, I noted that he is now up to 126 lawsuits against him. These suits--many of them anyway-- have something in common and that something is that he is interfering with Congress's job. Consequently, if I am correct, it should not take very long for such a suit to be filed.

Will be checking the litigation tracker again over the next few days, and I bet I find a suit.

I don't have to tell any of you that librarians are a very dedicated group. In addition, being well educated, they are not going to stand for something like this.

[rickyhall]

22. His money now right?