Humanities Texas learned this week that its federal funding has been cut, a move that it said will have a “devastating effect.”
The state’s humanities council, which supports libraries and museums and seeks to improve the quality of classroom teaching, said the cuts will wipe out $2.6 million per year — about 65 percent of its annual budget. That money comes from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
The funding cuts are being made by the Department of Government Efficiency, known as DOGE…