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'Crotch harness' in the Capital: How Trump just weaponized the Smithsonian
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The Smithsonian’s Real Offense Is Refusing a Sanitized America
A Museum Under Financial Siege
The fight over the Smithsonian is not an abstract dispute among historians. The Trump administration holds the executive branch, congressional Republicans control hearings and appropriations pressure, and the Smithsonian depends on the federal government for 62% of its funding—more than $1 billion annually. That is the power structure: an institution formally independent of the president but financially exposed to officials demanding ideological compliance…
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