The Smithsonian has issued a statement supporting Secretary Lonnie G. Bunch following President Trump's claim that he fired the director of the National Portrait Gallery.

Trump is accused of not having the authority to terminate Kim Sajet as director of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait Gallery.

The Smithsonian says it retains the authority over personnel such as the director of the National Portrait Gallery, whose firing the president had announced.

A Smithsonian Institution exhibit that analyzes changes in rural America will make a stop in a small Hill Country town this summer.

The Smithsonian issued a statement Monday saying that it controls its personnel decisions after President Donald Trump announced in May

The Board of Regents publicly backed Smithsonian leader Lonnie G. Bunch III and called for nonpartisanship after Trump attempted to fire a museum director.

SMITHSONIAN STANDS UP TO TRUMP. On Monday evening, the Smithsonian Institution affirmed it is an "independent entity" in a statement subtly challenging President Donald Trump's fi

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