The White House has fired members of an outside advisory group to the National Endowment for the Humanities, the latest effort to bring the agency in line with President Donald Trump’s priorities.

The firings were made in an email sent Wednesday morning to members of the National Council on the Humanities by Mary Sprowls, a staff member at the White House’s Office of Presidential Personnel.

“On behalf of President Donald J. Trump, I am writing to inform you that your position as a member of the National Council on the Humanities is terminated, effective immediately,” she wrote in the email, which was reviewed by The New York Times. “Thank you for your service.”

The council, whose members typically include 26 private citizens drawn mostly from the scholarly world, meets several times a y

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