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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 ...
The available reporting shows the U.S. Department of Education, under President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” has changed which graduate programs it designates as “professional degrees,...
The Trump administration’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act and related Department of Education guidance reclassify many nursing graduate and advanced programs so they are no longer listed among “profession...
The Department of Education under the Trump administration has moved to narrow the federal definition of “professional degree,” a change that multiple outlets report excludes nursing and several other...
Available reporting in the supplied documents centers on the Trump administration’s late‑2025 Education Department change that excludes many nursing programs from a new definition of “professional deg...
The Biden-to-Trump policy change most prominently reported in November 2025 was a Department of Education redefinition that removes many nursing graduate programs (including nurse practitioner tracks)...
The available reporting shows the Trump administration’s 2025 “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” changed the Department of Education’s regulatory definition so that nursing — and related programs such as nu...
The documents in the provided reporting do not identify a specific Trump executive order that directly changed nurse licensing requirements; instead, recent coverage describes a Department of Educatio...
The Department of Education under the Trump administration proposed excluding many healthcare programs — including nursing, nurse practitioner, physician assistant, physical therapy and audiology prog...
Multiple reputable news outlets did not simply repeat an unattributed "quote about nurses" from President Trump; instead, NBC, PBS, PolitiFact, Snopes and other outlets independently reported and fact...
Virginia Giuffre’s court filings that became public in 2015 included documents from a 2014 suit that referenced a “well‑known Prime Minister” and named multiple prominent figures; unsealed papers and ...
No reputable fact-checkers have verified a quote that President Trump said nurses are “not professional professionals”; reporting and fact-checks focus on the Department of Education’s decision to exc...
The Trump administration’s Department of Education redefined which graduate programs count as “professional degrees,” excluding nursing (including MSN and DNP) and other health and service fields from...
Available reporting documents that the Trump administration and the Department of Education reclassified many fields — including nursing — so they are not counted as “professional” degrees for loan-ca...
The U.S. Department of Education under the Trump administration has moved nursing (including many advanced nursing programs) off the agency’s list of programs treated as “professional degrees,” a chan...
The administration’s recent education reforms reclassified nursing programs so they are no longer counted as “professional degrees,” which lowers the federal loan caps available to many nursing studen...
In the past 20 years the available reporting does not show a steady, multi-year list of formal reclassifications by the U.S. Department of Education until the late‑2025 rulemaking debates and implemen...
The Department of Education under the Trump administration changed which graduate programs it counts as “professional degrees” while implementing the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, and that change explic...
Temporary emergency licensure waivers for out‑of‑state nurses were widely used during the COVID-19 pandemic (a de‑facto national waiver under state emergencies), and states continued to expand formal ...
The Department of Education under the Trump administration moved to exclude nursing graduate programs from its definition of “professional degree” as part of implementing the One Big Beautiful Bill Ac...