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华盛顿讯——一名联邦法官周四裁定，特朗普政府大规模取消向美国三大主要学术团体发放人文社科拨款的行为“非法”且“违宪”。
2025年4月，美国政府效率部（DOGE）终止了此前由国会批准的、来自国家人文基金会的数千项拨款。受资助方包括美国学术团体理事会、美国历史学会和美国现代语言协会。
这些团体于2025年5月提起诉讼，要求撤销该决定，他们辩称拆除国家人文基金会的做法“完全非法”，因为行政部门“没有宪法授权，基于总统自身的政策偏好去阻挠、修改、破坏或拖延拨款支出”。
在周四的裁决中，美国地区法官科琳·麦克马洪写道，向这些团体终止拨款的行为“违反了第一修正案，违反了第五修正案的平等保护条款，且缺乏法定授权”。麦克马洪表示，政府效率部官员没有法定权限执行此次拨款终止行动，并禁止本届政府执行该终止决定。
该裁决与作家行会的另一桩诉讼合并审理，该协会的会员也曾获得拨款资助。
这份长达143页的裁决书指出，政府效率部工作人员承认，在确定哪些拨款应当被取消时，他们没有审查任何申请或相关基础材料，并且使用ChatGPT来帮助拟定以多样性、公平性和包容性为由终止这些拨款的理由。
麦克马洪在判决意见中写道，负责牵头此次行动的政府效率部工作人员都是二十多岁的年轻人，“几乎没有任何相关经验——当然更没有任何与人文社科相关的经验”。
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Federal judge finds DOGE’s elimination of humanities grants “unlawful”
May 7, 2026 6:43 PM EDT / CBS News
Washington — A federal judge ruled Thursday that the Trump administration’s mass elimination of humanities grants to three of the nation’s major scholarly groups was “unlawful” and “unconstitutional.”
In April 2025, the Department of Government and Efficiency, or DOGE, terminated thousands of grants previously approved by Congress from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Among the grant recipients were the American Council of Learned Societies, the American Historical Association and the Modern Language Association of America.
The groups sued in May 2025 to reverse the actions, arguing that the dismantling of the National Endowment for the Humanities was “unlawful many times over” because the executive branch “has no constitutional authority to block, amend, subvert, or delay spending appropriations based on the president’s own policy preferences.”
In Thursday’s ruling, U.S. District Judge Colleen McMahon wrote that the termination of grants to the groups was “in violation of the First Amendment, in violation of the equal protection component of the Fifth Amendment, and without statutory authority.” McMahon said that DOGE officials lacked the statutory authority to carry out the grant terminations, and prohibited the administration from enforcing the terminations.
The decision was consolidated with another lawsuit from The Authors Guild, whose members received grant funding.
The 143-page decision noted that DOGE staff acknowledged they did not examine any applications or underlying materials when determining which grants to flag, and they used ChatGPT to help come up with rationales for why the grants should be terminated on diversity, equity and inclusion-related grounds.
McMahon wrote in the opinion that the DOGE staff tasked with leading the effort were in their 20s and “did not have much experience in anything at all — certainly not in anything remotely related to the humanities.”
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