Scalise backs bill revoking $25M from Kennedy Center following layoffs
by Dominick Mastrangelo
| March 31, 2020 11:05 AM
Rep. Steve Scalise said he would support a bill demanding the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., to give back the $25 million it is set to receive as part of the coronavirus relief funding passed by Congress last week.
"It shows the misplaced priorities of Speaker Pelosi," Scalise said Monday on Fox News. "While everybody else was working together ... Nancy Pelosi literally held up the bill for days to get her pet projects including the money for the Kennedy Center."
Hours after President Trump signed the bill, 96 members of the National Symphony Orchestra were told they were furloughed until the center reopens.
The NSO has canceled performances until mid-May, citing public health concerns related to the coronavirus.
The president of the Local 161-710 of the American Federation of Musicians said the moves taken by the center are "illegal."
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