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by The editor•29 June 2025•Posted inTalking Points Memo

A TPM Reader pointed out to me that the “Big Beautiful Bill” budgets fully $40 million dollars through what’s left of the National Endowment for the Humanities for the President’s ‘for the procurement of statues” for the President’s ‘Garden of Heroes’.

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