NPR: Sweeping Cuts Hit NEA After Trump Administration Calls to Eliminate the Agency

The Trump Administration has started canceling National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) grants.

Hundreds of arts groups of various sizes across the U.S. received emails notifying them of the withdrawal and termination of their grants late on Friday. The updates, which came from a generic "arts.gov" email address, appeared in grantees' inboxes just hours after President Trump proposed eliminating the agency entirely from the federal budget.

Among those affected are the Berkeley Repertory Theater, Central Park Summer Stage in New York City, and the Chicago-area arts education nonprofit Open Studio Project.

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