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Wednesday, February 11, 2026
Kennedy Center president warns of ‘skeletal teams’ during ‘total renovation’
The Washington Post: Kennedy Center President Richard Grenell warned of upcoming staff cuts and the reality of “skeletal teams” in a Tuesday night email to his staff that also touted a “total renovation of the building beginning in early July.”
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Rachel N
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I remember last March as I was on the DC metro during the first major “No Kings” protest day, talking to a woman who explained that the reason she was traveling to the protest was because she had just been laid off from USAID. She lamented about how she found out the news when she was working in South Africa and how she didn’t even know how she could get home. It was devastating to hear her story, but unfortunately it’s become a new normal for so many individuals working in the United States, not even necessarily under federal organizations. Under the Trump Administration’s Kennedy Center takeover, anyone who’s been keeping up with the progress of the Administration was bound to have seen these layoffs coming. Before this, numerous employees had left of their own free will, but it goes to show how much of a mess this situation is with layoffs now being linked to financial concerns rather than ideological.
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I remember last March as I was on the DC metro during the first major “No Kings” protest day, talking to a woman who explained that the reason she was traveling to the protest was because she had just been laid off from USAID. She lamented about how she found out the news when she was working in South Africa and how she didn’t even know how she could get home. It was devastating to hear her story, but unfortunately it’s become a new normal for so many individuals working in the United States, not even necessarily under federal organizations. Under the Trump Administration’s Kennedy Center takeover, anyone who’s been keeping up with the progress of the Administration was bound to have seen these layoffs coming. Before this, numerous employees had left of their own free will, but it goes to show how much of a mess this situation is with layoffs now being linked to financial concerns rather than ideological.
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