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Kennedy Center head warns staff of cuts and ‘skeletal’ staffing during renovation closure
Kennedy Center will reduce staff to skeletal teams during closure for renovation starting July, impacting nearly 2,500 employees, President Richard Grenell warned in a memo.
- The head of the Kennedy Center, Richard Grenell, has warned staff about impending cuts and 'skeletal' staffing during the center's two-year renovation closure.
- Few details have been released about the renovations, which President Trump announced despite a lack of evidence that the building was in disrepair.
- The renovation, which Trump said would require the closure of the Kennedy Center, represents 'a generational investment in our future,' according to Grenell.
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Kennedy Center head warns of 'skeletal' staff during two-year renovation
As the Trump administration prepares to close the Kennedy Center for a two-year renovation, the head of Washington’s performing arts center has warned its staff about impending cuts that will leave “skeletal teams.”In a Tuesday memo obtained by The Associated Press, Kennedy Center President Richard Grenell told staff that “departments will obviously function on a much smaller scale with some units totally reduced or on hold until we begin prepar…
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Kennedy Center head warns staff of cuts and ‘skeletal’ staffing during renovation closure
As the Trump administration prepares to close the Kennedy Center for a two-year renovation, the head of Washington's performing arts center has warned its staff…
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Kennedy Center head warns staff of cuts and 'skeletal' staffing during renovation closure
As the Trump administration prepares to close the Kennedy Center for a two-year renovation, the head of Washington's performing arts center has warned its staff about impending cuts that will leave "skeletal teams."
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The MAGA loyalist Donald Trump has running the Kennedy Center reportedly blew his lid reading a harsh-worded interview with the artistic director of the Washington National Opera. Richard Grenell, appointed executive director of the feted cultural institution last year, contacted the opera within hours of The Guardian publishing an interview with Francesca Zambello earlier in November, per The Washington Post. The former ambassador has sought to…
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