| The KC Mafia This article was featured in the Daily Prospect newsletter. Sign up for it here. On September 30, The Washington Post reported that the Kennedy Center, the iconic performing arts space on the Potomac River, had burned through a $21 million line of credit, a $10 million endowment, a $257 million congressional appropriation from the One Big Beautiful Bill, and an undetermined quantity of art, antiquities, and ticket revenues since Donald Trump's inauguration, despite having axed all but a handful of the venue's 2,500 staffers and stiffed the Washington National Opera of an alleged $17 million. |