Higher Ed Cuts in GOP Budget - Michael Stratford, Inside Higher Ed

House Republicans on Tuesday unveiled their 2015 fiscal year budget, which proposes steep cuts to many domestic social programs, including reductions to Pell Grants, student loans, and research funding. The proposal, by Representative Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, the House Budget Committee chairman, seeks to bring the federal budget into balance by 2024 and would cut spending by $5 trillion over the next decade. But like the Obama administration budget released in February, Ryan’s election-year budget is more aspirational than it is grounded in political reality. Under the proposal, the maximum Pell Grant award would be frozen at the current $5,730 amount for the next 10 years. The proposal seeks to end all federal funding for the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities. http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/04/02/ryan-budget-calls-cuts-pell-grant-elimination-neh