NEWS BRIEFS: Fed Budget? Thumbs Up for War, Thumbs Down for Everything Else

FROM INSIDE HIGHER EDUCATION: “Trump’s overall fiscal year 2027 budget requests $1.5 trillion for defense spending while cutting the budget for nondefense items by 10 percent to $660 billion. He is again asking Congress to do what it has so far refused to do: gut federal research agencies that provide billions of dollars to colleges and universities. And he’s still pushing to eliminate the Education Department, another move lawmakers have rejected.” Read more here.

Cover graphic courtesy Baylor Lariat

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