Trump proposes funding cut for Howard University after vowing to protect HBCUs
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Trump proposes funding cut for Howard University after vowing to protect HBCUs
Donald Trump’s claim that historically Black colleges and universities won’t have to worry about federal funding cuts under his administration barely lasted days before being proved false.I wrote about the president’s vow to protect HBCU funding last week, after sports commentator Stephen A. Smith (whose coziness with the MAGA movement I’ve documented here) asked Trump a somewhat fawning question about HBCUs during a NewsNation town hall. The background here is that HBCU leaders have openly fretted about what the Trump administration’s attempt to dismantle the Education Department and its assault on diversity initiatives could mean for the sustainability of their ..