President Donald Trump is taking aim at a nonpartisan Washington think tank in his drive to downsize the federal bureaucracy.
Trump issued an order Friday directing the elimination — to the maximum extent allowed by the law — of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in the Smithsonian Institution.
The think tank, established in 1968 by Congress as a tribute to the ideals of President Woodrow Wilson, works on a host of issues including foreign policy, climate change and Arctic research.
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The White House described the recommended cuts as part of Trump’s push to “drain the swamp and end ineffective government programs that empower government without achieving measurable results.”
