That's on top of sweeping cuts by local councils to their levels of arts provision.
Trump has also proposed a Voldemort budget that demands sweeping cuts everywhere except the Pentagon.
Mayor Villaraigosa's budget proposal was unveiled today, and revealed another round of sweeping cuts to the city's workforce.
On April 15th the Republican-controlled House of Representatives adopted a budget plan that enacts sweeping cuts to Medicare, Medicaid and other government programmes.
A few weeks ago, finance minister Brian Lenihan announced sweeping cuts to stabilise the shattered public finances as he presented the harshest budget in decades.
So is business opinion, with manufacturers alarmed at the potential impact of sweeping cuts on demand, and the risk of economic stagnation or a second downturn.
Canada's prime minister, Stephen Harper, faces a widening revolt by the country's leading scientists against sweeping cuts to government research labs and broadly pro-industry policies.
If there are hordes of disabled, mentally ill, or unemployed people who are draining the public purse, there is justification for sweeping cuts to social security.
The centre's directors, who rejected those charges, and instead blamed the closure on sweeping cuts to the arts – the result of Spain's ongoing financial crisis.
The prospect of sweeping cuts to public investment in the arts seems to have prompted, if not exactly an identity crisis, then certainly a bit of soul-searching.
Two hundred thousand disabled people will each lose almost £3,000 a year as a result of sweeping cuts to disability benefits, according to Labour analysis.
