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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.

Groups representing a vast range of colleges and universities joined one of the country’s foremost Jewish groups on Tuesday to urge the Trump administration to change how it is trying to combat campus antisemitism, the New York Times reports.

The turmoil at the National Science Foundation has deepened in the past two weeks, the result of several actions that threaten the agency’s budget, leadership and mission, Michael Neitzel writes in Forbes.

President Donald Trump wants to end funding for TRIO, Federal Work-Study and other grant programs that support students on campus as part of a broader plan to cut $163 billion in nondefense programs, Inside Higher Ed reports.

“President Donald Trump’s administration is making drastic budget cuts and ideologically driven priority changes at the National Science Foundation in the name of saving taxpayers money and rooting out diversity, equity and inclusion efforts. But higher education leaders warn the plans will sabotage the work of the independent 75-year-old federal agency, which sends billions to…

Over strong objections from Democrats, House Republicans on the Education and the Workforce Committee advanced legislation Tuesday that would make dramatic changes to the federal student aid system, Inside Higher Ed reports.

House Republicans are planning to upend how students and families pay for college in order to cut $330 billion in federal spending, according to draft legislation released Monday, Inside Higher Ed reports.

Research colleges and universities in Virginia are at risk of taking significant cuts, state lawmakers in the House of Delegates and education experts revealed Tuesday, as the country’s executive branch continues to trim down operations and funding in the federal government, the Virginia Mercury reports.