There’s plenty of debate going on about President Trump’s budget proposal, and the super science-y Neil deGrasse Tyson tried to put one area into perspective:
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Not that anybody asked, but the combined Federal budgets for the NEA & NEH equals what Americans spend annually on lip balm.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) March 22, 2017
Careful with that approach, NDT:
https://twitter.com/sirensoIiIoquy/status/844583086700597249
So they could easily be funded by donations. Good job figuring that out for us. https://t.co/A6jvvt4X3f
— takashi I hate everything yamamoto (@drunkenalpaca) March 22, 2017
It would not be unprecedented.
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