Senate 2025 Education Budget Reconciliation Bill
| 6/12/2025 | This summary outlines major provisions of the Senate’s 2025 education budget reconciliation bill, including sweeping changes to student aid eligibility, loan programs, repayment plans, and institutional accountability measures. |
Topic(s): Higher Education Act; Federal Budget and Appropriations; Financial Aid; Pell Grants; Student Loans
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Type: Bill Summary
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Amicus Brief: In Support of Harvard in Harvard College v. the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
| 6/9/2025 | ACE and other higher education associations are supporting Harvard’s motion for summary judgment in its lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Massachusetts, challenging the Trump administration’s freeze on billions in federal research funding. |
Topic(s): Law and Courts; Research; Research Funding; Science and Technology
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Type: Amicus Brief
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Analysis of Proposed Student Aid Changes in House Reconciliation Bill
| 6/6/2025 | Estimated impact by state of proposed changes to Pell Grant eligibility and elimination of subsidized loans under the 2025 House budget reconciliation bill. |
Topic(s): Higher Education Act; Federal Budget and Appropriations; Financial Aid
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talking Points: Student Success and Taxpayer Savings Plan
| 6/5/2025 | The House-passed Student Success and Taxpayer Savings Plan would sharply reduce access to Pell Grants and federal student loans, eliminate key aid programs, and impose new penalties on colleges. |
Topic(s): Higher Education Act; Federal Budget and Appropriations; Financial Aid
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Letter to the House on Proposed Reconciliation Package
| 5/21/2025 | On behalf of 17 other higher education associations, ACE wrote to House leadership to oppose the reconciliation bill under consideration due to provisions that will restrict student aid and impose new taxes on insitutions. |
Topic(s): Legislation; Financial Aid; Taxation and Finance; Higher Education Act; Federal Budget and Appropriations
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Type: Letters and Comments
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Letter to the House on Proposed Medicaid Cuts
| 5/12/2025 | On behalf of 13 other higher ed organizations, ACE wrote to the leadership of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce warning about the consequences for students and institutions of large cuts to Medicaid under consideration. |
Topic(s): Federal Budget and Appropriations; Health Care
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Type: Letters and Comments
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Complaint Filed in U.S. District Court for Massachusetts Over NSF Research Funding Cuts
| 5/5/2025 | This complaint, filed by ACE, AAU, APLU, and 13 research universities in the U.S. District Court for Massachusetts, challenges the National Science Foundation’s cap on indirect cost reimbursements as unlawful and harmful to federally funded research. |
Topic(s): Science and Technology; Research; Research Funding; Law and Courts
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Summary: Student Success and Taxpayer Savings Plan
| 4/30/2025 | This document summarizes the Student Success and Taxpayer Savings Plan, which would overhaul the federal student loan program. The House Committee on Education and the Workforce approved the proposal on April 29. |
Topic(s): Legislation; Student Loans; Pell Grants; Higher Education Act; Federal Budget and Appropriations; Financial Aid; Tax Reform; Taxation and Finance
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Type: Bill Summary
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Letter Opposing the House Budget Reconciliation Bill
| 4/29/2025 | Letter to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce expressing strong concerns and opposition to the Student Success and Taxpayer Savings Plan, a proposal to provide for budget reconciliation affecting education programs.
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Topic(s): Federal Budget and Appropriations; Tax Reform; Taxation and Finance
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Type: Letters and Comments
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Letter to Congress on the GLS Grant Program
| 4/28/2025 | On behalf of 7 other education and health organizations, ACE wrote to congressional appropriators urging them to increase funding for the Garrett Lee Smith Campus Suicide Prevention Grant
Program. |
Topic(s): Legislation; Federal Budget and Appropriations; Mental Health
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Type: Letters and Comments
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