Today, the Trump administration released its first proposed budget. It’s so awful in so many places that it was hard to know where to channel my anger. So, I’ll just focus on three tweets about the issue that hits home most directly, higher education. The first is a single tweet, and the latter two are Twitter threads. Click through to read the whole threads.
https://twitter.com/EduBenM/status/867078558207889412
and
Okay.
*Deep breath*.
I need to yell.
THIS WOULD DESTROY AMERICAN RESEARCH UNIVERSITIES. https://t.co/oeXVBp1Iwp
— Peter A. Shulman 📚 (@pashulman) May 23, 2017
and
"#NEH will not invite or accept any new grant applications, nor make any new grants, in FY 2018" https://t.co/30H6anHL13
— Rob Townsend (@rbthisted) May 23, 2017
I know this budget is DOA in Congress, but this administration has made their disdain for higher education quite clear.