By Tom Ambrose ,
51 minutes ago A mail-in ballot, during the Pennsylvania primary election. Photograph: Hannah Beier/Reuters 11.41am BST
The board of Washington’s John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is due to vote on Tuesday on whether it will continue to operate, with directors largely installed by president Donald Trump arguing that its future hinges on having his name on the complex.
Trump’s name has been added to and then removed from one of the nation’s top performing arts venues once already this year after federal judges ruled that only Congress could legally change the name of what it designated to be a “living memorial” to Kennedy, the 35th US president, who was assassinated in 1963.
“The Board understands that without such appropriate recognition it is unlikely that president Trump will provide the fundamental oversight of the renovation of the main building and lead the fiscal rescue of the Center,” the draft resolution says.
The draft resolution says the center’s finances are dire and it will be unable to honor its payroll obligations or routine maintenance contracts “within a matter of weeks.“
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