In a March 14 executive order, the Trump Administration is seeking to eliminate the Institute for Museum and Library Services “to the maximum extent consistent with applicable law.” The EO states that the IMLS—along with six additional entities including the U.S. Agency for Global Media and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars at the Smithsonian Institution—”shall reduce the performance of their statutory functions and associated personnel to the minimum presence and function required by law.”
