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The U.S. government has been without a spending plan for two weeks now. Senate Democrats aren’t backing down on their demands that Republicans extend health insurance subsidies and reverse Medicaid funding cuts, and Senate Republicans continue to push a short-term funding bill that would reopen the government but not restore that funding, Inside Higher Ed…

First, President Trump proposed a multibillion-dollar slash to the federal budget for higher ed. Then, Senate appropriators rejected his plan, keeping funding for many programs intact. And now House Republicans have landed somewhere in the middle, choosing to advance some of the president’s political priorities while blocking others, Inside Higher Ed reports.

After multiple government agencies moved to unilaterally cap indirect research costs—claiming that the current structure allows universities to waste government funds—a coalition of 10 research advocacy organizations unveiled an alternative plan Friday, Inside Higher Ed reports.

Researchers and the academic community may have reason to be hopeful about the future of federal funding. Early indications from the appropriations process suggest that both the House and Senate will diverge significantly from the president’s federal budget proposal for science and technology for the next fiscal year, Inside Higher Ed reports.

A federal judge tossed out the National Science Foundation’s policy capping reimbursements for costs indirectly related to research, finding “severe” deficiencies in the agency’s reasoning for the plan as well as “errors of law,” Inside Higher Ed reports.

Arizona State University President Michael Crow is proud that his school is home to more international students — about 17,000 — than any other public institution in the US, Bloomberg reports.

A coalition of 10 heavyweight higher-ed organizations is proposing to Congress an alternative to the research-spending cap the Trump administration has been seeking to impose. The new model would overhaul the federal system of reimbursing universities for indirect costs incurred for their research, which has been in place since World War II, the Chronicle of…

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at a hearing Tuesday faced tough questions from Senate appropriators, including some from his own party, over proposed cuts to biomedical research, the agency’s reorganization efforts and changes to local health grants, Roll Call reports.

Under a new accountability measure recently proposed as part of a larger House budget bill, colleges would have to pay millions of dollars each year to reimburse the government for their students’ unpaid loans, Inside Higher Ed reports.

A coalition of universities and trade groups is suing the National Science Foundation over the independent federal agency’s plan to cap higher education institutions’ indirect research cost reimbursement rates at 15 percent, Inside Higher Ed reports.