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“Democracy demands wisdom and vision in its citizens” and “to know the best that has been thought and said in former times can make us wiser than we otherwise might be, and in this respect, the humanities are not merely our, but the world's best hope.” (Report of the Humanities, 1964).

Terminating grants is simply cruelty and pain. Grants from NEH are awarded by Congress and should not be terminated by a group not empowered by Congress.
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(often non-profits, always on the edge of solvency because doing good work is placed above profit) are passed by because a grant was awarded, and one believed if you did good work, it would continue until completed.

It is hiring people, putting in place equipment, and establishing processes that often take years.
Terminating the process mid-grant often destroys the whole project's work. People lose their jobs. Other funding opportunities for organizations

Having worked on and received many NEH grants, it can take a year(s) of planning, assembling a team and expertise, writing a proposal, and often submitting not once but many times over several years to receive grant funding.

To have a healthy debate and happily concede to the wishes of whatever administration is in powerif the work is shown to be inappropriate in their eyes or wasteful -- that is democracy (we don't always get what we want).
Yet wholesale termination is simply cruelty and pain.