Education Funding vs Trump's commitment to helping the HBCU

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I somewhat support Trump's budget and I do think many departments are bloated, but when he brings in the HBCU and commits to helping them following weeks later with this report; that's not good. I'd like to see other sources back this up.

"After meetings with the Trump administration last month, leaders of historically black colleges and universities expressed cautious optimism that the increased funding they requested might actually make it into the White House budget. It did not.

[Trump, DeVos and GOP lawmakers are reaching out to historically black colleges]

Instead, Trump’s first presidential budget released Thursday calls for “maintaining” $492 million in appropriations for HBCUs and minority-serving institutions. Combined discretionary spending for those schools, however, is actually $577 million right now. The White House directed questions about the discrepancy to the Education Department, which did not respond to requests for comment.

There is no mention in the budget of any federal investment in scholarships, technology or campus infrastructure for historically black colleges that leaders requested. And instead of expanding Pell grants for low-income students to cover summer courses as they had asked, the budget raids nearly $4 billion from the program’s reserves."