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President Donald J. Trump has repeatedly announced that he does not keep the official presidential salary and instead donates it to federal causes or agencies, often taking a nominal $1 paycheck, a pr...
The Department of Education’s proposed 2025–2026 redefinition of “professional degrees” would shrink the list of programs eligible for the higher federal graduate loan caps — cutting roughly 2,000 nam...
Donald Trump publicly stated that he rather than keeping it, and multiple contemporary news reports document specific donations from presidential paychecks to entities like the White House Historical ...
The Department of Education’s negotiated-rulemaking (RISE) draft sharply narrows which graduate programs count as “professional degrees,” recognizing roughly 11 primary professions and a subset of doc...
The Department of Education under the Trump administration proposed a narrow interpretation of “professional degrees” that excludes numerous health, education and social-service programs—most notably ...
Donald Trump publicly pledged and—according to multiple government press releases and news reports—did donate portions of his presidential salary to federal agencies and nonprofits during his first te...
The Department of Education under the Trump administration has moved to stop classifying many graduate nursing programs as “professional degrees,” a change that affects loan caps and borrowing access ...
President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” and a related Department of Education rule change removed nursing and several other health programs from the department’s list of “professional degree...
There is no sourced record in the provided reporting that former President Donald Trump said nurses are “not professional professionals” or used that exact phrase; available reporting shows the Depart...
The immediate cause cited by critics is a Department of Education proposal to exclude nursing from the federal definition of “professional degree,” which would affect loan eligibility and forgiveness ...
Donald Trump is legally entitled to a $400,000 annual presidential salary (plus allowances) and publicly said he would not keep it; sources report he donated or directed his quarterly paychecks to gov...
Donald Trump has publicly said he donated his presidential salary to several government entities and a nonprofit: his first-term donations included the National Park Service (via the Department of the...
The Department of Education (ED) proposed a tighter definition of “professional degrees” for 2025–26 that would shrink programs treated as professional from roughly 2,000 to fewer than 600 and limit e...
The Department of Education’s 2025 negotiated-rulemaking and proposals narrowed which graduate programs qualify as “professional degrees,” explicitly keeping roughly 11 fields and using criteria like ...
The Department of Education’s 2025 proposal would narrow “professional degree” status from roughly 2,000 programs to fewer than 600 and recognize only about 11 core fields as professional (medicine, l...
The Department of Education’s RISE committee and draft regulatory text would sharply narrow which graduate programs count as “professional degrees,” reducing roughly 2,000 program entries to fewer tha...
Project 2025 was spearheaded by the Heritage Foundation and mobilized a broad coalition of more than 100 conservative organizations to produce a detailed governance roadmap called "Mandate for Leaders...
A set of early 2025 executive orders clearly track major Project 2025 prescriptions—most notably orders targeting diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI); transgender service in the military; sweeping f...
Major news outlets and multiple reporting outlets say the Department of Education under the Trump administration changed its regulatory list of what it calls “professional” degree programs, excluding ...
The Department of Education’s late‑2025 proposal narrowed its formal list of “professional degree” programs to 11 fields — including medicine, law and dentistry — and excluded many degrees commonly tr...