National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)

The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) erupts as partisan bonfire in the Mural Room, its $105 million budget savaged by Congresswoman Tawny Cryer for subsidizing blasphemous provocations—Piss Christ, dung-cheeseburgers, Lisa Mulberry's explicit genitalia exhibits, Oakenwood's outrages—channeled indirectly through grants to museums and institutions. Toby Ziegler roars defense of its core mission to nurture artists nationwide, decrying taxpayer vetoes on cultural expenditures amid White House clashes over fiscal purity versus expressive freedom.