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Musk, Top DOGE Officials Exit Trump Admin Amid Tensions

By Wil Steakin Multiple senior DOGE officials are in the process of leaving the Trump administration as Elon Musk officially steps away, sources told ABC News Thursday. Among them is James Burnham, DOGE’s top attorney, and Steve Davis, a longtime Musk lieutenant at Musk’s private companies, who are both in the process of offboarding from their roles as a special government employees, a White House official confirmed to ABC News. Musk, the billionaire CEO of Tesla and X who helped launch the Department of Government Efficiency in order to slash the federal government, said on X Wednesday night that he wanted to

Trump Cuts to Local Food Programs Impact Schools, Farms

By Janet Shamlian At Riverside High School in Durham, North Carolina, the food is as fresh as can be because most of it comes from local growers. “We receive local shredded carrots, cucumbers, lettuce, because we feel that we need to support people in our own communities,” Jim Keaten, who runs the nutrition program for Durham Public Schools, told CBS News. Keaten said the school district’s produce comes from local growers under a U.S. Department of Agriculture program that was cut by the Trump administration. “Immediately, my thoughts were, what are we going to do?” Keaten said of his first

Teen Caregivers Face Challenges Amid Medicaid Cuts

By Leah Fabel High school senior Joshua Yang understands sacrifice. When he was midway through 10th grade, his mom survived a terrible car crash. But her body developed tremors, and she lost mobility. After countless appointments, doctors diagnosed her with Parkinson’s disease, saying it was likely triggered by brain injuries sustained in the wreck. At 15, Yang, an aspiring baseball player and member of his school’s debate team, took on a new role: his mother’s caregiver. Researchers estimate that Yang, now 18, counted among at least 5.4 million U.S. children who provide care to an adult in their home. As state officials eye federal

Trump Admin Moves to End Affirmative Action in Contracts

The Trump administration moved Wednesday to dismantle one of the federal government’s largest and longest-standing affirmative action programs, siding with two White-owned contracting businesses that challenged its constitutionality. In a motion filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky, the Justice Department said that a Transportation Department program that has carved out an estimated $37 billion for minority- and women-owned businesses violates the equal protection clause of the Constitution. If a judge approves the proposed settlement, the Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Program (DBE) will be prohibited from awarding contracts based on race and sex, effectively ending its

Trump Halts New Student Visas Amid Social Media Review

By Humeyra Pamuk President Donald Trump‘s administration has ordered its missions abroad to stop scheduling new appointments for student and exchange visitor visa applicants as the State Department prepares to expand social media vetting of foreign students. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in the cable that the department plans to issue updated guidance on social media vetting of student and exchange visitor applicants after a review is completed and advised consular sections to halt the scheduling of such visa appointments. The move comes as the Trump administration has sought to ramp up deportations and revoke student visas as

Federal Cuts Threaten HBCU Health Research and Funding

By Candace Wilder Wendy White, director of the Jackson Heart Study Undergraduate Training and Education Center at Tougaloo College, has experienced what financial markets and world leaders have all felt this year: whiplash. In April, the Trump administration paused funding to the center, which is the nation’s largest and longest-running training program for early-career scientists and hub for research on heart disease in African Americans. In total, 36 college students lost their scholarships. Five staff members, including White, lost their jobs. As a result of the cuts, the center planned to end its undergraduate training program later this summer. Then

Lawsuit Challenges USDA SNAP Data Collection Order

By Jude Joffe-Block, Stephen Fowler A new lawsuit filed Thursday says the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s demand for sensitive data about millions of food assistance recipients violates federal privacy laws. Meanwhile some states are preparing to comply with the unprecedented request which could be used to achieve Trump administration priorities, such as immigration enforcement. In new guidance issued earlier this month, the USDA told states they must turn over data to the agency, through their third-party payment processors, “including but not limited to” names, birth dates, Social Security numbers and addresses of all applicants and recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program,

HBCU Federal Funding: Tuskegee President Testifies

Tuskegee University president Mark Brown stresses HBCU federal funding urging protection of Pell Grants and Grad loans.  Tuskegee University President Mark Brown highlighted the importance of federal investments, such as Pell Grants, to students’ success in higher education during a hearing Wednesday. Importance of HBCU Federal Funding in Higher Education Brown appeared before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee alongside other higher education leaders. He discussed his perspective from a Historically Black College and University on the current state of higher education. Brown is the first alumnus of Tuskegee University to lead the school. He noted how the

Land-Grant HBCU Funding Parity Act Introduced by Adams

Congresswoman Alma S. Adams, Ph.D. (NC-12), founder and co-chair of the Bipartisan, Bicameral Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) Caucus, and Congressman Shomari C. Figures (AL-02) introduced the Land-Grant Institution Parity Act. The Land-Grant Institution Parity Act protects federal funding for our land-grant colleges and universities, including the country’s 19 land-grant HBCUs, commonly referred to as 1890 Institutions. This bill comes following the USDA’s suspension and reinstatement of the 1890 National Scholars Program, a scholarship program for 1890 Institution students studying agriculture, food, or natural resources sciences, earlier this year. “The Land-Grant Institution Parity Act is an important step to protect funding for our land-grant HBCUs

Justice Department Ends Police Reform Consent Decrees

The Trump administration is moving to dismiss federal oversight agreements in Louisville and Minneapolis reached following the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor and police killing of George Floyd, and dropping investigations into several major US police departments. The move, announced by the head of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, reflects the administration’s opposition to agreements that require reforms of police departments where the DOJ found a pattern of misconduct. The agreements, called consent decrees, are approved by a federal judge and are used as a monitoring system for police department reform when an investigation finds that it is needed.

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