President Trump's first federal budget proposal is targeting the National Endowment for the Arts, threatening to cease funding to the agency and similar organizations, such as the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the Institute for Museum and Library Services.

It's not the first time the NEA has been at the center of our culture wars.

Here's a timeline of the agency's accomplishments and controversies and previous attempts to shut it down...