What Happens to Student Loans and Financial Aid During Trump’s Federal Funding Freeze?
Starting from Tuesday, the Trump Government has frozen federal loans and gifts. Many people want to know what this means for their federal students’ economic assistance.
one memorandum The acting director of the White House Management and Budget Office, Matthew Vaeth, released the stop of ordering federal funds on Monday night. Frozen today at 5 pm in the United States at 5 pm, and asked federal agencies to review all its federal financial assistance plans and complete comprehensive analysis to ensure that funds are consistent with the government.
This kind of freezing does not affect “assistance provided directly to individuals”, which means that suspension will not affect federal student loans or Perko subsidies. CNET fund expert review committee member explain. However, Kantrowitz pointed out that because these funds provided to universities provided funds to students, the federal work plan and federal supplementary education opportunities may be affected.
Since most universities have entered the spring semester and have allocated funds for the spring semester, freezing may not affect this help. At present, the details are unclear.
So what exactly does it affect?
Kantrowitz said: “Memorandum is mainly aimed at expenditure that conflicts with the recent execution commands, including DEI, foreign aid and new green policies.” Other countries assist, medical subsidies and health research subsidies may also be affected.
Management and budget office must receive information about all requests before February 10. As a result, Kantrowitz expects that if all information must be reviewed before restoring funds, the suspension may last for two weeks or more.
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