Just before the shutdown, OMB told agencies to draft RIF plans for programs that wouldn’t have alternative funding sources.

The White House budget office said Friday that mass firings of federal workers have started in an attempt to exert more pressure on Democratic lawmakers as the government shutdown continues.

The number of federal employees has been trimmed by thousands since President Trump took office, according to contingency plans drawn up by federal agencies.

It’s a good thing that unions and employers have a shared interest in the robust funding of the NEA and NEH—because it’s going to take a united front to make it happen.

The Fort Lauderdale museum, one of the country’s oldest L.G.B.T.Q. institutions, is looking to its rich archives for lessons in how to survive a crisis. Here’s a look inside its collection.

Democrats could learn something from studying how wounded political parties returned to power in the past.

A majority of NEH employees received an email placing them on immediate leave. The news comes just days after many humanities councils across the country were told their grants would be terminated.

I just read an article describing how the White House fired most members of the board of the national Council on the Humanities. The National Council on the Humanities advises the NEH (National Endowment for the Humanities} on grant-making decisions). Instead of a board of 26 members, there are now four members. The board has lost essential diversity and with it, most likely, the ability (or perhaps inclination) to entertain and fund a broad scope of grant requests.