A think tank targeted by President Donald Trump plans to cancel its upcoming programs as it shrinks to the minimum size allowed under the law.
The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in the Smithsonian Institution, known as the Wilson Center, sent an email to supporters Monday detailing its plans to comply with a recent Trump directive.
Trump issued an executive order in March directing the elimination — “to the maximum extent consistent with applicable law” — of the Wilson Center and other federally funded entities the president deemed “unnecessary.” It’s part of the Trump administration’s broader push to slash federal spending and reduce the size of the federal workforce.
The nonpartisan think tank, established in 1968 by Congress as a tribute to the ideals of President Woodrow Wilson, “is complying with a March 14th Executive Order to reduce to its minimum statutory functions,” the Wilson Center said in an email Monday.
