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The DC Digest-May 23, 2025

  • House Passes Reconciliation Bill
  • Kennedy Testifies on President’s FY26 Budget Request for HHS 
  • Coalition Urges Congress to Reject Proposed Cut to DOE Office of Science Budget
  • Department of Commerce Rescinds Most Recent Tech Hubs Awards, Announces New Competition
  • Judge Blocks Department of Homeland Security Move to Bar International Students at Harvard
  • Judge Blocks Student Visa Record Terminations Nationwide 
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The DC Digest-May 20, 2025

  • House Budget Committee Passes Reconciliation Bill, Moves to Rules Committee
  • NSF Pauses 15 Percent Reimbursement Rate Implementation

The DC Digest-May 16, 2025

  • House Budget Committee Pushes Off Vote on Reconciliation Bill
  • DOD Announces 15 Percent Cap on Reimbursement Rates
  • Preliminary Injunction Granted on DOE Rate Cap
  • Trump Administration Announces New DARPA Director
  • $58M in Student Loan Payments Received Since Involuntary Collections Began in May
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The DC Digest-May 13, 2025

  • Education Department Plans to Finalize Student Loan Repayment Rules by End of Year 
  • In Collaboration with AJC, Higher Ed Groups Pledge Reforms to Fight Campus Antisemitism
  • House Republicans Unveil Tax Bill

The DC Digest-May 9, 2025

  • NSF Facing Shakeup as Officials Abolish its 37 Divisions
  • DOE Implements Additional Indirect Cost Caps on Some Awards
  • Education Dept. Cancels Fulbright-Hays Applications for FY2025
  • Education Department Investigating UPenn Foreign Gift Reporting
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The DC Digest-May 6, 2025

  • Higher Education Associations File Lawsuit Contesting NSF Reimbursement Rates
  • Education Department Tells Colleges to Advise Struggling Borrowers

The DC Digest-May 2, 2025

  • White House Releases “Skinny Budget” Details
  • NIH Updates
  • NSF Implements New Indirect Cost Rate
  • Education Department Takes First Steps to Comply with Accreditation Executive Order
  • GAO Says Trump Administration Ignores Watchdogs Amid 39 Funding Investigations
  • DOGE Sued Over Cuts at National Endowment for the Humanities
  • Waltz Out at NSA, Nominated for UN Ambassador
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DC Digest-April 22, 2025

  • NIH Halts Future Grants to Universities with DEI Programs, Israel Boycotts
  • OSTP Director Gives First Remarks 
  • Education Department to Begin Collecting on Federal Student Loan Defaults
  • Education Department to Probe Harvard Foreign Gifts Reporting
  • Harvard Files Suit Against Trump Administration Over Funding Freeze

The DC Digest-April 29, 2025

  • Budget Reconciliation Markup Process Begins
  • Trump Administration Says UPenn Violated Title IX
  • Education Department Investigating UC Berkeley Foreign Funding Sources

DC Digest-April 25, 2025

  • NSF Director Resigns
  • Judge Temporarily Blocks Education Department from Enforcing DEI Rules
  • President Trump Signs EOs on Foreign Reporting, Accreditation
  • Trump Administration Reverses Terminations of Student Visa Registrations
  • Court Temporarily Blocks Administration from Revoking Legal Status of 133 International Students
  • State Department Releases Reorganization Plan
  • Post of the Week!

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