The April 12 PI article, “Trump administration pulls funding for Pilgrim Hall work,” details the revocation of a $200,000 grant to Pilgrim Hall Museum that would have helped modernize and preserve four centuries of documents in its archives. Keith Sonderling, the acting director of the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services, indicated that the Pilgrim Hall funding needed to be reallocated “in furtherance of the President’s agenda”.
The funding elimination to the Plymouth museum is one of a myriad of other federal cuts including to USAID, the National Park Services, the Social Security Administration, NIH, University grants, Medicaid, the Weather Service, SNAP food benefits, Head Start, and to a host of other programs that deal with society needs. PI readers ought to understand that these cuts, added to the increased revenues gained from higher prices of goods paid by Americans for the newly instituted Trump tariffs, are to offset the unstated presidential agenda, a more than $5.5 trillion tax cut primarily for the rich.
– Karl Kuban