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President Trump’s policies and actions coincided with a falling fiscal 2025 deficit—from about $1.8 trillion in FY2024 to roughly $1.775–$1.8 trillion in FY2025—largely aided by a surge in tariff (cus...
President Biden has been accused of “ignoring or circumventing the courts” in several high-profile policy areas—most commonly the CDC eviction moratorium, student loan relief, and race-conscious colle...
The 2025 reconciliation law and subsequent Education Department rulemaking sharply narrow which graduate programs count as “professional,” end the Grad PLUS program for new borrowers, and set new annu...
Degree or program reclassifications — meaning changes to how a degree or program is classified by an institution, regulator, or interstate compact — can change who qualifies for benefits such as tuiti...
Available reporting shows the Trump administration issued at least two distinct moves affecting how degrees are treated in federal employment and higher education policy: a June 26, 2020 executive ord...
Federal deficits were essentially flat from FY2024 to FY2025: most official tallies put both years at about $1.8 trillion, with FY2025 recorded as $8–$41 billion lower than FY2024 depending on the rep...
Available reporting shows multiple concrete actions and proposals from the Trump administration that reduce federal education funding or federal education staffing: a proposed FY2026 package that woul...
Rep. Shri Thanedar introduced seven articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump on April 28–29, 2025, accusing the president of a sweeping pattern of abuses ranging from defying court order...
News coverage shows the Trump administration’s Education Department has proposed or begun implementing rules that would narrow which graduate programs are treated as “professional degrees,” with nursi...
The Trump administration’s decision to remove several fields from the federal definition of “professional” primarily changes which students and occupations qualify for higher student-loan caps under t...
The Trump administration pursued a suite of policies and plans that—according to reporting and policy analysis—reallocated or threatened to reconfigure how federal K‑12 and special education funds flo...
President Trump issued an executive order declaring that “all executive departments and agencies of the Federal Government shall be closed” on December 24 and December 26, 2025, excusing employees fro...
The NCAA changed its Division I reclassification timelines in January 2025: schools moving from Division II now face a three-year transition (previously four) and schools from Division III face a four...
Donald Trump’s public behavior and administration actions toward people with disabilities have produced measurable , including reported mockery of individuals with disabilities, statements minimizing ...
Turning Point USA (TPUSA) treats campus free speech primarily as a mobilizing grievance—arguing conservative students are marginalized and supplying organizing tools and events to counteract that perc...
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (often shortened to the OBBBA or “Big Beautiful Bill”) is a sweeping 2025 reconciliation law that remakes large swaths of tax policy, student‑loan rules and benefit law,...
Federal and state probes tied to Turning Point USA (TPUSA) leaders since 2015 fall into two broad categories: (A) federal law-enforcement and civil-rights reviews touching TPUSA events and alleged out...
Multiple news outlets report that changes tied to President Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” (OBBBA) and subsequent Education Department rulemaking narrow which graduate programs count as “professiona...
PhD admissions and doctoral training across U.S. universities — including education PhDs — are under pressure as federal education and research funding is being cut or restructured, and many instituti...
Federal policy changes taking effect July 1, 2026 will sharply limit federal loan access for many graduate and nondegree students: nonprofessional graduate programs face a $20,500 annual cap and a $10...