The NEA is the federal agency that funds the arts and art education across the country. It provides grants to nonprofit organizations, public agencies, colleges and universities, and individual writers for projects. It also has research grants and funds fellowships for translation and creative writing in prose and poetry.

Senior officials announced their resignations after the Trump administration withdrew grants from arts organizations around the country.

The Trump administration’s new budget plan recommends closing the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the National Endowment for