Pressure Mounts: GOP Senators Join Bipartisan Push for Release of $6 Billion Education Funds
Pressure Mounts: GOP Senators Join Bipartisan Push for Release of $6 Billion Education Funds A coalition of Republican senators, led by Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), has issued a rare rebuke to the Trump administration, urging the immediate release of over $6 billion in federal education funding currently being withheld. The funds, already appropriated by Congress, were paused on June 30 for an ongoing review, despite typically being allocated to states and local school districts by July 1. This delay…