Trump aims to eliminate the national endowment of humanities

The Trump administration issued a 2026 budget suggestion On Friday afternoon, it would eliminate the national endowment of humanities (NEH), the National Standing of the Arts (NEA), and other federal agencies that support culture and arts.

If Congress approved, the proposal will have immediate repercussions on financing arts and humanity in the United States, which directly affects agencies and different from non -profit organizations that depend on this funding, including 56 governmental and regional councils that are funded by NEH. The proposal will also eliminate the Museum and Library Services Institute (IMLS); These three agencies were the subject of large discounts for their budgets 2025 last month.

“The agents of the human sciences of the state and the jurisdiction include programs that help the old warriors to recover, teach children to read skill and thinking in a critical manner, and to provide grants to the popular rules, and the projects that volunteers move and that do not simply occur without the resources of human councils, in a statement.”

“We will continue to work cooperatively with members of Congress to educate them about the influence of these investments and their domesticity locally, and we trust that they will continue to see the value of these small but exciting programs.”

The news comes at a time when the discounts from the Ministry of Governmental efficiency (DOGE) have already stopped all funding for the fiscal year 2025, along with $ 65 million in the total NEH budget of $ 210 million, and launched about 65 percent of its employees. Instead, the money was transferred to the creation of the National Champions Park of President Donald Trump, Other projects. In response, the Milon Foundation has allocated $ 15 million in emergency financing to state councils to help prevent many of them from closing.

However, a suspended lawsuit submitted by three organizations focusing on humanities on May 1 aims to reverse the discounts in grant programs, employees and NEH sections that occurred in April.

On May 1, the judge also issued a temporary order to prevent the dismantling of the Trump administration from IMLS just a few days before the collective demobilization of almost all employees.

During his first term as a president, Trump tried and failed to eliminate NEH financing.