From the ruling (https://www.historians.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/291-Me...):

>The second stage of the grant termination process began on March 12, 2025, when Justin Fox and Nate Cavanaugh – identified in the record as members of DOGE’s “Small Agencies Team” – met with NEH leadership, including McDonald and Wolfson… Prior to joining the Trump Administration, neither Fox nor Cavanaugh had any experience in government, public grant administration, private grant administration, or reviewing humanities projects for scholarly merit… In fact, as both were in their twenties, they did not have much experience in anything at all – certainly not in anything remotely related to the humanities.

This is wild. Trump administration gave a bunch of young adults access to decide about millions and millions of tax money. No guardrails, no checks, no competence.