California State Library’s federal aid cut retroactively without warning

On Wednesday, April 2, a California State Library spokesman said the institution had not been informed of any changes to its budget, but that changes in federal funding might be coming, perhaps in the July budget for the coming fiscal year.
Well, it didn’t take that long. 
By 5 p.m. that same day, the state library had received a brief two-page memorandum that the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) was ending its current 2024-2025 grant to the state. Or rather, it