The humanities and the White House have not responded to requests for comments.
The donation, the largest federal financier for the Humanities, has provided more than $ 6 billion in fairs, historical sites, libraries, research facilities and community projects since its foundation in 1965. It continued to receive conference support during this administration, including a $ 207 million owning in March.
But it is unclear whether that support will continue. The proposed budget of the White House for the tax year 2026, released on Friday, states the national donation for the Humanities under a dozen small agencies that are the target for elimination.
In a press conference on Thursday, leaders of the three scientific associations that suggested the government, that they did this on behalf of the many small groups and projects throughout the country, some of which may not survive without the financing.
“We are not talking about the ivory tower,” said Joy Connolly, the president of the American Council of Liger Society. “We are talking about the needs of community lectures and public libraries and high school students and K-12.”
James Grossman, the executive director of the American Historical Association, said that presidents have always appointed gift chairs that emphasized their own priorities. What was new, he said, the insistence was that the agency only had to support Mr Trump’s priorities and have to do many long -term programs.
According to the claimants, the non -exproken money of the subsidies canceled are around $ 154 million. Only 54 subsidies remain intact, many of them, Mr Grossman said, with regard to the American Revolution, the founders of the nation and the 250 -year anniversary of independence.
“The projects that remain are good projects,” Mr Grossman said. “The problem is that they are the only universe of projects. The termination letters say:” Your project is not within the empire of what is important to the president. ” That has never happened before. “
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