Several UCLA students and administrators said they are concerned with President Donald Trump’s budget request for federal funding for higher education. The proposed budget request would cut the Department of Education’s discretionary spending by $9.2 billion or 13.5 percent, impacting student aid and financial loans as well as research grants. Read more...

Photo: David Pomerantz, former Democratic Staff director on the U.S. House Committee on Appropriations; Marjorie Duske, director of Science and Technology Policy in the UC Office of the President’s Federal Government Relations division; and Francisco Carrillo, executive director of Federal Government Relations, discussed President Donald Trump’s proposed federal budget at a forum Tuesday evening. (Courtesy of Jonathan Van Dyke)