US EditionFor second time, Trump seeks to eliminate federal funding for tribal colleges and universities
The proposal would eliminate federal funding for the Institute of American Indian Arts and cut money for about three dozen tribal colleges, leaders said.
- President Donald Trump's fiscal year 2027 budget proposal calls for slashing federal funding for tribal colleges and universities, including the Institute for American Indian Arts, marking the second consecutive year of proposed cuts.
- Last year, Trump also reduced funding for TCUs, reallocating some resources to Historically Black Colleges. Native Americans operate about three dozen such institutions, which rely heavily on federal support.
- The proposal specifically targets two schools operated by the BIE: Haskell Indian Nations University in Kansas and the Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute in New Mexico. Students at these institutions previously sued the Bureau over staffing cuts.
- If the budget passes, TCUs could be forced to close within a year, said Ahniwake Rose, president of the American Indian Higher Education Consortium. Rose emphasized these institutions provide critical education for Native Americans.
- Congress must now defend federal support for TCUs, as Senator Ben Ray Luján, a Democrat from New Mexico and member of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee, vowed to "fight relentlessly to protect IAIA and secure the federal funding they need.
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Winston-Salem JournalTrump again seeks to cut funding for tribal colleges
For the second year in a row, the Trump administration is proposing slashing federal funding for tribal colleges and universities.
Tribal colleges would 'close within a year' if Trump budget passes, leaders say
President Trump’s 2027 budget would slash billions in funding to tribal nations, much of which is owed to tribes as part of treaties between Native Americans and the U.S. government.
For the second consecutive year, U.S. President Donald Trump’s government proposed drastically cutting federal funding for tribal colleges and universities. The government’s budget project for fiscal year 2027 contemplates a $1.5 trillion increase in defense spending and cutting billions of dollars in programs that fulfill fiduciary and treaty-based responsibilities with tribal nations, including the total elimination of funding from the Institu…
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