The reason he can keep saying he funded HBCUs “because nobody was funding them for years and years” is because his supporters have no interest in HBCUs enough to ask basic questions. Really quick thread. 1/
The Higher Education Act of 1965 created a program so that HBCUs could receive Federal funds. So that's 55 years. 2/
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The Higher Education Act amendment in 1986 created annual, Federal funding for HBCUs, indicating “the current state of Black colleges & universities [was] partly attributable to the discriminatory actions of the States and the Federal Government.” 3/
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So starting in 1987 HBCUs received funding through the Title III B program 4/
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The main program, Title III B, has a $324M budget for FY20. Trump, when speaking of funding, is talking about the Title III F program, started by George W. Bush, which has been at $85M since it began. So we have have had funding since 1965, annually since 1987. 5/5 
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