Libraries - executive order on Friday, March 14th eliminates a major funding source [View all]

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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/