DOGE Sued Over Cuts at National Endowment for the Humanities

The Department of Government Efficiency has left the National Endowment for the Humanities “a shell” of an agency through its cost-cutting efforts, several grantees said in a new lawsuit Thursday.

The US DOGE Service, its operatives, and NEH violated the Administrative Procedure Act as well as the US Constitution, the groups say in their complaint in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York. NEH is an independent federal agency dedicated to funding the humanities subjects of, among other things, history, literature, law, philosophy, and language, it says on its website.

The defendants haven’t given an “explanation ...