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Trump targets Biden-era billion-dollar Smithsonian budgets amid anti-'woke' push

President Donald Trump's effort to remake the Smithsonian is reaching the institution's bottom line, with the administration proposing its smallest budget request in years while pushing to eliminate what it calls "woke" ideology from federally funded museums and programs.A Fox News Digital analysis of Smithsonian budget requests found the institution submitted steadily larger funding requests during the Biden administration, with annual requests rising from $1.11 billion in fiscal year 2021 to a record $1.24 billion in fiscal year 2024.The fiscal year 2025 request also exceeded $1 billion befo...