AAUP- National
May 26, 2017
The Trump administration's budget proposal for the 2018 fiscal year would make drastic cuts to education, slashing federal student aid and research funding. The proposal, released May 22, fleshes out the "skinny budget" released by the administration in March.
The plan proposes deep cuts in the following areas:
- Student aid: The public-service loan-forgiveness program, subsidized Stafford Loans, and Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants would be eliminated. Graduate students using income-based loan repayment would see their costs rise dramatically. The Perkins Loan Program would be allowed to expire. Funding for the Federal Work-Study Program would be halved.
- Arts and humanities: The National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities would be phased out.
- Science: The budget of the National Institutes of Health would be cut by close to 20 percent, and the National Science Foundation budget would be cut by more than 10 percent. Research funding at other agencies would be significantly reduced.
- International education: The proposal would eliminate programs that foster foreign-language study and reduce funding for international-education programs and exchanges, such as the Fulbright Scholar Program, by 55 percent.
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