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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...
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...
The Trump administration combined high-profile gestures toward Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) — permanent FUTURE Act funding and later one-time redirections totaling hundreds of ...
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...
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...
’s student loan forgiveness effort is a multi-year, evolving program that has delivered targeted cancellations and systemic repayment reforms while repeatedly running into legal and political headwind...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
President Trump has limited unilateral tools to halt the federal shutdown: he can issue targeted orders (as he did to pay troops) and OMB can prioritize spending, but . The balance of available report...
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...
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...
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 ...
The replaces prior income‑driven models with a tiered schedule that charges a set percentage of adjusted gross income (AGI) that rises with earnings — broadly described in reporting as ranging from ab...
of ’s presidency as of 2025 are an expanded and routinized use of executive power, a personnel-driven reshaping of the federal bureaucracy rooted in networks, a durable pivot in trade and economic sta...