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The bill reduces federal spending and shifts responsibility for certain humanities activities away from the NEH—saving federal dollars but removing a key federal funding source and potentially shrinking public humanities programming while shifting costs to state, local, and private actors.
Federal taxpayers may pay less in federal grant dollars because the NEH is barred from funding activities authorized by section 7, reducing federal outlays for those humanities programs.
Nonprofits, schools, and universities could gain space to pursue private or local funding and make programmatic decisions independently of NEH grant priorities as federal support is removed.
Nonprofits, schools, and universities that relied on NEH grants will lose a federal funding source for humanities projects, reducing resources available for operations and programming.
Students, parents, and families may have access to fewer cultural and educational programs because reduced NEH support could shrink public humanities programming.
Costs for humanities activities will likely shift from the federal government onto state, local, or private funders, potentially straining local budgets and nonprofit fundraising.
Based on analysis of 3 sections of legislative text.
Prohibits the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) from using any of its annual funds to carry out activities authorized by section 7 of the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965. The ban applies to NEH funds for any fiscal year and takes effect on the first day of the first fiscal year beginning after enactment.
Prohibits the NEH from using any annual funds to carry out activities authorized by section 7 of the 1965 Act, effective next fiscal year.
Introduced January 3, 2025 by Andrew S. Biggs · Last progress January 3, 2025