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While there was no vote to defund the program, the decision on faculty diversity statements did alarm proponents of the program.
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Curtis Bunn, NBC News, 6 Dec. 2024
Argentina has been in freefall since March when the new far-right government pushed through plans to defund all state funding to the country’s national film body, the National Institute of Cinema and Audiovisual Arts (INCAA).
—Diana Lodderhose, Deadline, 19 Sep. 2024
The Washington Examiner first reported that the GEC funded a British group called the Global Disinformation Index, which crafted a blacklist of conservative media outlets to defund them and worked to pressure advertisers.
—Gabe Kaminsky, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 18 Dec. 2024
For Julio Ricardo Varela, an MSNBC columnist and founder of the Latino Newsletter, the political battles and calls to defund NMAL over the museum’s content and ideology are a frustrating distraction.
—Carole V. Bell, ARTnews.com, 17 Dec. 2024
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Curtis Bunn, NBC News, 6 Dec. 2024
Argentina has been in freefall since March when the new far-right government pushed through plans to defund all state funding to the country’s national film body, the National Institute of Cinema and Audiovisual Arts (INCAA).
—Diana Lodderhose, Deadline, 19 Sep. 2024
The Washington Examiner first reported that the GEC funded a British group called the Global Disinformation Index, which crafted a blacklist of conservative media outlets to defund them and worked to pressure advertisers.
—Gabe Kaminsky, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 18 Dec. 2024
For Julio Ricardo Varela, an MSNBC columnist and founder of the Latino Newsletter, the political battles and calls to defund NMAL over the museum’s content and ideology are a frustrating distraction.
—Carole V. Bell, ARTnews.com, 17 Dec. 2024
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“Defund.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/defund. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.
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