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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not every local thing needs a fed agency effing with it.[/quote]

The grants are lifelines to local libraries. [/quote]

Not really.  The dollar amounts are very small.  A lot if it is just free books pushing particular ideologies popular in DC or distributing pork to help Congressional incumbents get re-elected.  [/quote]

You're full of shit.

Oohh looky here:

[quote][b]In 2018, Congress passed a bipartisan bill that updated the agency’s Grants to States program. This bill, signed by President Donald Trump in his first term, [/b]established a minimum amount of state funding for libraries, usually determined by state population.

Today, the agency funds 125,000 public, school, academic, and special libraries across the country.[/quote]

Sounds like 2018 may have been an autopen situation, huh? Probably his dementia is so bad now that he can't remember what he did, huh? Sleepy Don.

https://www.edweek.org/policy-politics/trump-admin-cuts-library-funding-what-it-means-for-students/2025/03[/quote]

Actually, you’re full of it because you think you are moral just for being on the blue team, and you’re easily influenced by propaganda.  It’s just simple math.  If this agency is supporting 125,000 special libraries, they are getting an average of about 2300 bucks each.  Like I said, the dollar amounts are small.  Too small to even justify the red tape, reporting, fed strings attached, etc etc.[/quote]

They do other stuff too and usually require matching state funding. $46,000 is around the salary of an executive director at a small library or museum.

It may or may not be a good use of federal funds but those small amounts are indeed vital to the places that get them.[/quote]

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