Moments after the president signed the biggest bailout bill in American history – which included tens of millions of dollars for the Kennedy Center – The Center laid off the entire National Symphony Orchestra:
Hours after President Trump signed a stimulus bill that includes $25 million for the Kennedy Center, its president Deborah Rutter told the National Symphony Orchestra that their paychecks would end this week..
In a conference call Friday night, Rutter told orchestra leaders that the 96 musicians would receive their last paycheck on April 3 and that they will not be paid until the arts center reopens. In addition, she said their health care benefits would stop at the end of May if the arts center is still closed at that time. The announcement was characterized by several NSO members as a shock.
While the orchestra is out on the streets, does anyone want to place any bets on how many key Democrat party figures and donors will get a boost from the taxpayer bonanza?
Follow the money! This is payoffs to Valerie Jarrett and Susan Rice for being good left wing party apparatchiks. They were both board of trustees members. Trump rained on the parade though, because he just appointed a new board.
It is now pretty much a given that when Democrats sneak pork into the federal budgets, allegedly to fund their pet projects, it is just a money laundering scheme to pay off their big donors and other connected people.
It’s got to be due to all the rat-bastard Republicans on the Kennedy Center Board.