President Donald Trump’s war on higher education has been a central feature of his second term — with Trump targeting student protesters for deportation, revoking Harvard University’s ability to enroll international students, and yanking billions in research funding. But while Trump reserves much of his more public rancor for university presidents, student activists, and faculty, his administration is also preparing to launch an assault on a largely invisible population on college campuses: parents.

Earlier this month, the Trump administration proposed eliminating Child Care Access Means Parents in School, also known as CCAMPIS: the only child care program exclusively for lower-income students who are parents. Tucked into Trump’s proposed annual budget from earlier this month is a plan to eliminate all $75 million in funding for CCAMPIS. That’s separate from the $1.6 billion in cuts to tuition assistance for lower-income students proposed by House Republicans in their “Big, Beautiful, Bill,” which is predicted to be the largest wealth transfer, in the form of tax cuts, from the poor to the rich in the nation’s history.

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    2 days ago

    They want them to have kids, they just want the kids to have the most awful upbringing they can force on them.
    They want them to grow up poor with no chance at higher education so they’ll be forced to work low wage physically demanding jobs and to not have any idea of what kind of lives they should be living.