Tag: Appropriations

The President has signed the spending cap deal, leaving Congress until October 1st to get all twelve appropriations bills (or continuing resolutions) on his desk or the government will shut…

A spending caps deal has been reached (though not released), and the House is planning on voting on it this week before the August recess, a recess that puts Congress…

Still no progress on coming to a spending cap deal, but the House isn’t waiting: They just passed their first minibus, which includes funding for education. The Senate, on the…

International students, watch out: You now have to pay an additional $150 to apply for a U.S. visa, a change that comes at the same time that the White House…

Action in the Agencies! HHS is proposing a rule that would allow transgender persons to be denied medical care based on the beliefs of the provider, DHS is proposing a…

Both the House and the Senate education committees held hearings addressing everything from the proposed changes to Title IX, the upcoming reauthorization of HEA, and the Department of Education’s failings…

No April Fools jokes here – President Trump’s budget proposal is not friendly to graduate education, proposing major cuts to science funding and student loans (see our statement on his…

The shutdown has been averted, and President Trump did declare a national emergency to fund his wall. Now that the new session of Congress is underway, higher education is definitely…

Congress has until Friday to reach a deal that President Trump will sign, and we’re expecting him to declare a national emergency if it doesn’t fund his wall. Almost 97,000…

Advocacy groups and legislators both are mobilizing against the Department of Education’s proposed changes to Title IX, through submitting comments to the register and drafting legislation. Meanwhile, a stop-gap measure…