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Originally Posted by Brujah
See above. Not only that, this isn't an Obama thing. Obama just signed a Pell Grant cut into law last year.
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Your statement is misleading.
"President Barack Obama increased Pell grants in his stimulus bill -- the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The president then proposed indexing Pell Grants for inflation and increasing the Pell to $5,975 by 2020, but Congress never followed up to enact that into law.
When Republicans took the House majority in 2011, the first piece of legislation passed included a $5.7 billion cut to Pell Grants, though the bill never made it through the Senate. Later, however, Pell Grants were cut during the debt ceiling debacle in the summer of 2011.
But in the Budget Control Act of 2011 -- a deal reached between Congress and the president to raise the debt ceiling -- overall Pell Grant funding was boosted."