{"id":5555,"date":"2025-10-15T13:48:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T13:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prepsaret.com\/news\/?p=5555"},"modified":"2025-10-15T13:48:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T13:48:12","slug":"trump-administration-fires-nearly-all-college-prep-staff-in-move-that-alarms-republican-supporters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prepsaret.com\/news\/trump-administration-fires-nearly-all-college-prep-staff-in-move-that-alarms-republican-supporters\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Administration Fires Nearly All College-Prep Staff in Move That Alarms Republican Supporters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Key Points:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Almost all 60 employees of a federal college-preparation program for low-income students were permanently laid off.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The layoffs target TRIO programs long defended by Republican senators.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Critics warn the move threatens oversight of taxpayer-funded education initiatives.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><b>College-Prep Program Faces Deep Cuts Amid Shutdown<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Trump administration has permanently dismissed nearly all 60 staff members overseeing a key college-preparation program for disadvantaged students, according to two people familiar with the decision.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The layoffs are part of a broader wave of shutdown-related cuts across the federal government, which officials say could jeopardize oversight of <a href=\"https:\/\/prepsaret.com\/ged\/the-top-government-funded-ged-program\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">taxpayer-funded education programs.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The decision affects the Department of Education\u2019s TRIO programs, a network of initiatives that help roughly 900,000 students nationwide\u2014from middle school through college\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/prepsaret.com\/ged\/top-5-best-resources-for-ged-preparation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">prepare for higher education<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Despite strong bipartisan support, the administration moved forward with staff eliminations without public notice, revealing the cuts only through a legal filing listing more than 4,200 government-wide layoffs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe whole crux of the support staff is to ensure taxpayer money is spent appropriately, and we\u2019re not there anymore to do it,\u201d said one of the individuals familiar with the layoffs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The move aligns with the administration\u2019s stated goal of downsizing the Education Department. Trump\u2019s 2026 budget proposal calls for eliminating $1.2 billion in funding for TRIO and related initiatives such as Upward Bound and Talent Search, which identify and support first-generation and low-income students.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read Also:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/prepsaret.com\/news\/special-education-programs-left-crippled-after-trump-administrations-mass-layoffs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Special Education Programs Left Crippled After Trump Administration&#8217;s Mass Layoffs<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/prepsaret.com\/news\/u-s-weekly-jobless-claims-rise-amid-ongoing-government-shutdown\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">US weekly jobless claims increased amid government shutdown<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><b>Republican Lawmakers Push Back on Unexpected Cuts<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The layoffs have surprised and frustrated several Republican lawmakers who previously defended the TRIO programs. In June, Senators Susan Collins of Maine and Shelley Moore Capito of <a href=\"https:\/\/prepsaret.com\/ged\/ged-prep-classes-in-fredericksburg-virginia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">West Virginia<\/a> publicly opposed efforts to eliminate the initiative, citing its success in expanding educational opportunities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI strongly disagree with the president\u2019s proposal,\u201d Collins said during a Senate hearing with Education Secretary Linda McMahon, noting that TRIO had transformed the lives of countless first-generation students. Capito had earlier introduced bipartisan legislation aimed at strengthening the programs\u2014legislation that would have relied on the very staff now being dismissed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Other Republican senators, including Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Lisa Murkowski of <a href=\"https:\/\/prepsaret.com\/ged\/ged-prep-classes-in-juneau-alaska\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alaska<\/a>, joined over 30 Democrats in a September letter demanding the release of delayed TRIO funds.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Education Department and White House declined to comment on the layoffs. Labor unions representing department employees have questioned the legality of the move, arguing that past shutdowns only led to temporary furloughs rather than permanent job losses.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As the federal shutdown enters its third week, uncertainty looms over whether Congress will act to restore the programs or allow one of the nation\u2019s most established college-access efforts to fade amid political and fiscal battles.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Key Points: Almost all 60 employees of a federal college-preparation program for low-income students were permanently laid off. The layoffs target TRIO programs long defended by Republican senators. Critics warn the move threatens oversight of taxpayer-funded education initiatives. College-Prep Program Faces Deep Cuts Amid Shutdown The Trump administration has permanently dismissed nearly all 60 staff [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5557,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[336],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.4 (Yoast SEO v25.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Trump Administration Fires Nearly All College-Prep Staff in Move That Alarms Republican Supporters<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Trump administration fires most college-prep staff, alarming Republicans concerned about reduced support for low-income students.\" 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