D.C. officials slam Trump budget cut to tuition assistance program - Carleton Bryant, The Washington Times

City officials are slamming President Trump’s call to cut all federal funding to a D.C. program that helps residents attend college. The D.C. Tuition Assistance Grant (DCTAG) program receives about $40 million a year from the federal government to provide grants of up to $10,000 to qualified college-bound students. Mr. Trump’s budget, released Monday, proposes cutting that federal expenditure. “DCTAG is a successful program that has worked for years to expand educational opportunities for our young people, and it is unfathomable that any leader working to build a safer, stronger and more competitive country would choose to cut a program like this rather than expanding it,” Mayor Muriel Bowser, a Democrat, said in a statement late Monday. https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/feb/13/dc-officials-slam-trump-budget-cut-to-tuition-assi/