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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...
The Department of Education in 2025 removed nursing from its list of programs counted as “professional degree” programs for certain loan-eligibility and aggregate loan‑limit purposes; the department s...
Donald Trump’s 2024 effort drew massive sums from a mix of small-dollar donors, megadonors, super PACs and corporate gifts: the campaign reported single-day small-donor hauls like $34.8 million after ...
Coverage from multiple outlets shows the U.S. Department of Education, under President Donald Trump’s administration and its “One Big Beautiful Bill” implementation, moved to exclude nursing (MSN, DNP...
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...
Donors during the Trump era received a wide range of that went beyond routine recognition: private dinners and briefings, donor‑only events and travel perks, and in multiple cases formal appointments ...
The U.S. Department of Education, under the Trump administration’s implementation of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, has changed which graduate programs it counts as “professional degree” programs — a...
The core of Donald Trump’s second-term cabinet in 2025 was a mix of familiar Trump loyalists, media personalities turned officials, and political allies elevated to high-profile roles — with Vice Pres...
A direct, attributable quotation from Donald Trump in which he comments on "nurses' professionalism" does not appear in the reporting provided; contemporary coverage documents policy language and agen...
The reclassification of many graduate programs as not “professional” has been presented in reporting as a Department of Education policy enacted under the Trump administration and tied to President Tr...
The initial Cabinet that took office with President Donald J. Trump on January 20, 2025 centered on Vice President J.D. Vance and a cohort of high-profile, often controversial picks that included Pete...
Top-level officials at the Department of Education under President Trump — chiefly Education Secretary Linda McMahon and the agency’s reinterpreted regulatory staff implementing the One Big Beautiful ...
Nursing organizations and unions reacted with strong concern and public statements after the Trump administration’s rulemaking excluded nursing from its list of “professional” degrees, warning the cha...
Available reporting in the provided set does not focus on controversies over Donald Trump’s personal academic transcripts or claimed degrees; instead, recent disputes center on his administration’s re...
Hospitals, national nursing groups and state nursing associations reacted with alarm and calls for reversal after the Department of Education’s change that excludes nursing from the federal definition...
Federal actions under the Trump administration’s 2025 “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” and related Education Department rulemaking reclassified which graduate degrees count as “professional,” excluding nu...
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...
Available reporting shows at least two Trump-era federal actions directly affecting nursing: the Department of Education’s late‑2025 change that excludes many nursing graduate credentials from the age...
Available reporting in the provided sources does not include a single, consolidated list titled “reasons the U.S. Department of Education gave for revoking professional credentials in 2025.” Coverage ...
The Department of Education (ED) justified its 2025 changes primarily as efforts to “break up the federal education bureaucracy,” improve administrative efficiency, and “return education to the states...