{"id":61097,"date":"2026-09-19T22:03:43","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T22:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/is-the-kennedy-center-losing-hundreds-of-millions-of-dollars\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T22:03:43","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T22:03:43","slug":"is-the-kennedy-center-losing-hundreds-of-millions-of-dollars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/is-the-kennedy-center-losing-hundreds-of-millions-of-dollars\/","title":{"rendered":"Is the Kennedy Center losing &#8216;hundreds of millions of dollars&#8217;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">US President Donald Trump has claimed the Kennedy Center in Washington DC has been losing &#8220;tens of millions of dollars, even hundreds of millions of dollars&#8221; for years. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Trump, who wants his name on the famous performing arts venue, was photographed onboard Air Force One looking at a poster with a headline that appeared to tout the demolition of the site.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Federal audit records for 2024 show that, despite having &#8220;an operating deficit&#8221;, it had a surplus of millions of dollars &#8211; as Aisha Sembhi explains. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Design by Mesut Ers\u00f6z and Henry Esterson. Additional reporting by Tom Edgington. <\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/videos\/cqy4zw4xr717o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump has claimed the Kennedy Center in Washington DC has been losing &#8220;tens of millions of dollars, even hundreds of millions of dollars&#8221; for years. Trump, who wants his name on the famous performing arts venue, was photographed onboard Air Force One looking at a poster with a headline that appeared to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[6592,16795,796,1257,1806,809],"class_list":["post-61097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reality-check","tag-center","tag-dollars","tag-hundreds","tag-kennedy","tag-losing","tag-millions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61097"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61099,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61097\/revisions\/61099"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}