Is the Kennedy Center losing 'hundreds of millions of dollars'?

US President Donald Trump has claimed the Kennedy Center in Washington DC has been losing "tens of millions of dollars, even hundreds of millions of dollars" for years.

Federal audit records for 2024 show that, despite having "an operating deficit", it had a surplus of millions of dollars - as Aisha Sembhi explains.

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