The Trump administration’s new Department of Government Efficiency has been temporarily prevented from significantly defunding projects supported by the 60-year-old National Endowment for the Humanities.
NEH grantees would suffer “irreparable harm” if the grant cuts weren’t restored, Judge Colleen McMahon of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York said July 25.
In a consolidated case, McMahon granted the Authors Guild’s motion for a preliminary injunction but rejected a similar motion from the American Council of Learned Societies. She also granted the government’s motion to dismiss some of the platiniffs’ counts, but others including alleged violations of ...