A federal judge on Wednesday issued a preliminary injunction against the National Endowment for the Humanities and Department of Government Efficiency, among others, preventing those federal agencies from terminating grants awarded to Oregon arts and cultural organizations.

The injunction, issued by Judge Michael H. Simon, arrives amid a lawsuit filed by Oregon Humanities and the Federation of State Humanities Councils against DOGE in April , and rules that the sudden revocation of NEH grants awarded to the plaintiffs was unlawful. Additionally, it orders NEH acting chairman Michael McDonald and DOGE acting administrator Amy Gleason not to spend the plaintiffs’ award money on any other purpose while the litigation continues.

Simon’s ruling disagreed with several of the government’s arg

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