{"id":390698,"date":"2026-01-06T01:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T01:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/390698\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T01:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T01:18:08","slug":"spending-bill-still-refers-to-the-kennedy-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/390698\/","title":{"rendered":"Spending bill still refers to the Kennedy Center"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 President Donald Trump<\/a> may have his name on the building, but it\u2019s still the Kennedy Center to Congress. <\/p>\n

A bipartisan spending package<\/a> released Monday by House Speaker Mike Johnson includes $32 million for operating expenses at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts through Sept. 30, 2027. <\/p>\n

Trump made a series of leadership changes<\/a> at the center shortly after he took office in 2025 that ended with the Republican president\u2019s handpicked board of trustees voting in December to rebrand the venue as the Trump Kennedy Center by adding his name to Kennedy\u2019s<\/a> on the exterior of the building and the website. <\/p>\n

The Kennedy Center said the vote recognized Trump\u2019s work to revitalize an institution he had criticized as being too liberal-leaning. But since he took over the center, numerous artists have canceled appearances<\/a>, ticket sales and attendance have fallen, and viewership for December\u2019s broadcast of the Kennedy Center Honors<\/a> program \u2014 which he predicted would soar because he was the host \u2014 was down by about 35% compared to the 2024 show. <\/p>\n

After Kennedy was assassinated in 1963, Congress passed a law the following year naming the center as a living memorial to the Democrat. The law explicitly prohibits<\/a> the board of trustees from making the center into a memorial to anyone else, and from putting another person\u2019s name on the building\u2019s exterior. The board\u2019s vote is the subject of a lawsuit in federal court. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 President Donald Trump may have his name on the building, but it\u2019s still the Kennedy…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":390699,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,48,20756,8930,1376,75,2841,19308,129031,24737,714,2845,8615],"class_list":["post-390698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-dc-wire","tag-district-of-columbia","tag-donald-trump","tag-entertainment","tag-general-news","tag-john-f-kennedy","tag-local-news-for-apple","tag-mike-johnson","tag-politics","tag-u-s-news","tag-washington-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}