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    The Trump Administration Really Wants to Cut Education Funding. Congress Doesn’t.

    For the third year in a row, lawmakers are expected to disregard the administration’s proposed budget.
    by Adam Harris Mar 11, 2019 2 minutes
    Source: Evan Vucci / AP

    On Monday, Donald Trump’s administration released its budget proposal for the 2020 fiscal year, and the plan isn’t pretty for the Education Department. The proposal requests a roughly $7.1 billion cut in funding for the department compared with 2019, which represents a 10 percent decrease in its budget. The proposed cut is unlikely to go anywhere; like years past, Congress

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