“One of the questions we asked was can we really continue to ask a coal miner in West Virginia or a single mom in Detroit to pay for these programs? The answer was no,” he said. “We can ask them to pay for defense, and we will, but we can’t ask them to continue to pay for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.”

– Trump budget director Mitch Mulvaney, on the recently-released 2017 budget which kills a large number of programs favored by Democrats.