The National Endowment for the Arts Begins Terminating Grants
New York Times | May 3, 2025 | Michael Paulson
The endowment told arts organizations that it was withdrawing or canceling current grants just hours after President Trump proposed eliminating the agency in the next fiscal year.

Ohh man. MY 1 sentence RFP was: Give me 10 billion dollars and I’ll reduce funding waste in the national endowment for the arts
How to turn my grant into a cash cow rather than just drinking it. In bronze, of course.
Cheers!
The National Endowment for the Arts Has Begun Terminating Grants, Including Yours, Which Was… A damn shame, because our company Christmas tree, decorated with hundreds of scrapped miniature bellows, was a glorious display of reuse, and beautiful in its own right…
… a one-person play decrying the oppression of faintly discouraging the transitioning of minor children, entitled Chop Swap. It was a glorious, unhinged screed, as well as interactive, with the audience voting between acts as to which direction the transition should proceed in the next act…
Grant Connors. He was a waiter at a diner. A few other Grant Connors’ were terminated before him for some reason.
The National Endowment for the Arts Has Begun Terminating Grants, Including Yours, Which Was…
the easiest place to start.
… being the least endowed
Man, I really needed that money for my project, “Mushroom Cloud over the Sea of Serenity.”
Now I’ll have to start a GoFundMe.
Since my name ain’t Art, I have no grant to lose.