Plaintiffs, a national nonprofit membership association and a group of scholars whose grants were terminated, filed this class action against the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the U.S. Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Plaintiffs are challenging the Trump-Vance administration’s termination of over 1,400 NEH grants. The scholar plaintiffs had each received NEH grants to fund their humanities projects, which were abruptly terminated without notice. Plaintiffs allege the grant terminations violate the Administrative Procedure Act, the Impoundment Control Act, the Appropriations Act, separation of powers, and the First Amendment.
The court consolidated this case with American Council of Learned Societies v. McDonald (1:25-cv-03657), which also challenged Trump Administration grant cancellations.
