{"id":547203,"date":"2026-03-26T22:09:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T22:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/547203\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T22:09:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T22:09:06","slug":"kennedy-center-begins-layoffs-rocking-institution-ahead-of-two-year-closure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/547203\/","title":{"rendered":"Kennedy Center begins layoffs, rocking institution ahead of two-year closure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"JNRQMYOEEFEKFA2HGWTAIWK37M\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">The Kennedy Center began layoffs on Thursday, initiating the first wave of anticipated cuts tied to President Donald Trump\u2019s plan to shut down the institution for two years.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"APO6DQEIGBBWPAO3YXVECM2MCU\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Multiple departments were affected \u2014 including programming, development, advertising, marketing and the office of the president \u2014 according to multiple people at the center who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss personnel matters. It is unclear how many staffers were affected, but the number appears to be in the double digits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Kennedy Center began layoffs on Thursday, initiating the first wave of anticipated cuts tied to President Donald&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":547204,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-547203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/547204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}