House GOP Demand Kennedy Center Answer for Layoffs, Return Some of $25 Million Coronavirus Relief
House GOP are demanding answers from the Kennedy Center, which laid off employees after receiving $25 million in coronavirus relief funding.

House GOP are demanding answers from the Kennedy Center, which laid off employees after receiving $25 million in coronavirus relief funding.
A leaked recording of a Kennedy Center conference call reveals employee layoffs were planned before a $25 million bailout from Congress.
The Kennedy Center, recipient of $25 in Coronavirus relief funding, furloughed 96 members of the National Symphony Orchestra on Friday.
American Conservative Union (ACU) chairman Matt Schlapp said on Thursday that the Kennedy Center, which will receive a $25 million bailout as part of the $2 trillion coronavirus relief package unanimously passed by the Senate, should either return the money or “redirect it to a DC charity helping victims” of the coronavirus.
“I said, ‘That’s a lousy soundbite, that’s not a good soundbite,’ but that’s the way life works,” Trump said.
Democrat congressional candidate Ammar Campa-Najjar deleted a tweet Tuesday in which he had complained about pork projects in the stimulus bill proposed Monday by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA).
The storied J.F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is celebrating the Christmas season by staging a drag queen show starring “genre-defying drag artist and MacArthur ‘genius’ Taylor Mac.”
WASHINGTON (AP) — Comedian Dave Chappelle has been chosen to receive this year’s Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.