from Book Riot: "there is still an opportunity to turn the future for the IMLS around, and it comes through an all-in effort by Americans to demand restoration of its funds. While the Republican’s budget and taxing bill passed last week–a bill that will devastate all...
PBS article: https://www.npr.org/2025/07/03/nx-s1-5454841/house-republicans-trump-tax-bill-medicaid Fitzgerald Republican Yea Grothman Republican Yea Moore (WI) Democratic Nay Pocan Democratic Nay Steil Republican Yea Tiffany Republican Yea Van Orden Republican Yea...
POLITICS Legislature passes and Evers signs budget after sprint to get ahead of Trump big bill Milwaukee Journal Sentinal article
Last month, Carla Hayden, the first woman and first African American to hold the position of Librarian of Congress, received an email that announced, without explanation, her dismissal. It was one of many recent instances where President Trump has pushed out the...
Frank Vaisvilas Milwaukee Journal Sentinel A popular and well-respected librarian for the Bad River Public Tribal Library in northern Wisconsin, who was laid off by the Trump administration in April, has recently returned to work. Read the entire article.
From WPR: "A budget bill that would form the cornerstone of President Donald Trump’s agenda passed the U.S. House last week with support from all six of Wisconsin’s Republican members of Congress."...
The Trump administration has fired the nation’s top copyright official, Shira Perlmutter, days after abruptly terminating the head of the Library of Congress, which oversees the U.S. Copyright Office. From AP article: Hayden, whose 10-year term was set to expire next...
By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) Updated 5:10 PM CDT, May 2, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge agreed to temporarily block the Trump administration from taking any more steps to dismantle an agency that funds and promotes libraries across the...
From the Wisconsin Examiner, April 21, 2025 Wisconsin libraries brace for steep drop in services under federal funding cuts