President Donald Trump ordered the little-known Institute of Museum and Library Services to cut as much as legally possible

That agency pumps millions of dollars into Michigan libraries to help support programming

Library officials worry rural communities will suffer most if the agency makes the cuts

Michigan museum and library officials are sounding the alarm about President Donald Trump’s push to dramatically shrink the federal agency that supports them, saying the impacts would be felt acutely in rural Michigan.

In a March 14 executive order , Trump listed the Institute of Museum and Library Services and six other federal agencies as “elements of the Federal bureaucracy that the president has determined unnecessary.”

The order

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