HOUSE APPROPRIATORS MARKUP LABOR-HHS-EDUCATION BILL WITH STEEP CUTS
House appropriators marked up its FY25 Labor, Health and Human Services and Education bill this week at $185.8 billion, putting it approximately 11 percent below FY24 funding. The GOP-led budget proposal would reduce Title I funding and prohibit spending on Title IX enforcement. The bill kept the maximum Pell Grant award at just over $7,000, but slashed the Supplemental Education Opportunity (SEOG) and work-study programs in half. With the drastic decrease in the funding bill it offset the cost by eliminating 17 programs agency-wide, including higher education programs such as Teacher Quality Partnership Grants, Child Care Means Parents in School, Hawkins Centers of Excellence, and the HBCU/MSI Research and Development Infrastructure Grants.