Kate Shindle has released the following statement in response to Nikki Haley's tweet, in which Haley wonders why the arts deserve aid during the COVID-19 pandemic:
"When Congress passed the $2 trillion Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, which included a half-trillion dollars in relief to big companies, former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley tweeted an objection to a relatively tiny allocation for arts institutions. The bill included $250 million - less than one-thousandth of one percent of the total - for public television and radio, the Kennedy Center, the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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