Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate have reached agreement on a spending blueprint for the 2016 fiscal year that could lead to deep cuts in education spending and a reduction in benefits for student-loan borrowers.
The plan, which will guide appropriators as they draft spending bills for the fiscal year that begins in October, assumes that lawmakers will eliminate mandatory Pell Grant money, subjecting the program’s entire budget to the annual appropriations process. That’s how the program was financed until recently, but some advocates worry that a shift back to 100-percent discretionary funding would make Pell Grants vulnerable to budget cuts.
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