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But as I have shared, he proposed over $100M in cuts to HBCUs in his 4 budget proposals, including the program made permanent under the FUTURE Act. He zeroed it out in his FY20 budget, noted by the Thurgood Marshall College Fund. 2/
He said "We have record funding to historically Black colleges and universities. You all know that." But what he never says is that for his 4 budgets, he requested $107M in cuts for the 3 largest Title III programs!
Let's start with the "where they had none." HBCUs have had federal funding since the 1960s. You can see almost 20 years here. But note in 2008 there is a new category- mandatory funding. 2/ 
Way too many people think that Trump's HBCU executive order provided funding, provided permanent funding, or totally funded HBCUs. Point 1- there is NO MONEY allocated. In fact, you can't even find the word million or billion. 2/ 
People get the quote from this article where it says “Michael Lomax, president and CEO of the United Negro College Fund, thanked Trump and the thousands of advocates who lobbied Congress to support the bill.” 2/
Here is the @Newsweek article. Newsweek is wrong for posting this article on a number of fronts. First, it summarizes a few paragraphs of the original article by the Associated Press, and then pastes the rest of the @AP article. 2/
Chad. Co-Valedictorian. @BetaPhi1938 prez. @apa1906NETwork highest GPA winner 2021. @hcasc All-Star. Sutton Prize winner. Heading to @UFLaw . 2/ 
The title is misleading and the article confuses folks first calling it $45B for HBCUs then saying it includes other minority-serving institutions. But the headline is wrong; saying it is just HBCUs is lazy. 2/ 
This is how funding works. 2/ 
Fact: "Each year, the federal government disperses about $1 billion to HBCUs through a mix of 15 programs such as Pell Grants and research and development contracts." 
Jack Thomas @StudentPres of @CentralState87 #AlphaPresidents 
