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September 2, 2025
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House Bill Mimics Destructive Trump Education Cuts
Statement from Augustus Mays, vice president for Partnerships and Engagement for EdTrust, on the Fiscal Year 2026 House Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Bill

WASHINGTON — “The House Republican majority has chosen to tightly align the content of its recently released Fiscal Year 2026 Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations bill with the Trump administration’s destructive and unpopular budget proposal. The House appropriations bill would cut 15% from education funding, reducing investment to 2010 levels, and continue to attack programs that benefit millions of students nationwide.

This proposal also goes even further than the Trump budget by slashing roughly $5 billion from Title I, our nation’s largest investment in school districts that serve the most students from low-income backgrounds and students of color. These harmful cuts come against the backdrop of the administration’s ongoing programmatic withholding and recently proposed illegal pocket rescission — upending the Constitution and destroying the appropriations process as it has been practiced for centuries.

“We urge the House to reject these cuts and any pocket rescissions and instead adopt the bipartisan Senate approach and maintain the usual appropriations process. Our nation’s students and educators deserve robust federal funding and the certainty the federal government will provide it as legally required.”

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