The US Senator Mark Kelly, a Democrat from Arizona, speaks at a rally on June 12, 2025 at the Capitol Hill in Washington, DC (Photo by Shauneen Miranda/States Newsroom)
Washington – The US Senator Mark Kelly joined the lawyers, parents, teachers and students on Thursday to blow up congress republicans. Proposed cuts in education.
The Democrat and Demonstrators of Arizona spoke out against the “big, beautiful calculation” of the GOP legislators, an attempt to reduce billions of dollars of federal expenses in order to compensate for the costs of the comprehensive agenda of President Donald Trump and tax cuts.
Kelly lambs the Private voucher program integrated into the version of the reconciliation package of the house. The proposal would provide tax credits of 5 billion US dollars a year for people who donate to organizations who offer private and religious school grants.
“They want to play according to various rules – a backhand method to take their tax money and put them in private schools,” he said. “Let me tell them that Arizona has been fighting this fight for years, and it is not going well, and public education that children in the state of Arizona can get is not the same as 10 years ago, so this is not a good idea – it’s a terrible idea.”
The Republicans of the Congress utilize the complicated reconciliation process so that the package in each chamber changes with plain majority votes to the 60-controlled threshold of the Senate, which generally requires non-partisanity.
The House just over The version of the legislation in May and it begins to see proposed changes in the Senate, also on the University system.
The supporters have also blown up the cuts of the House Conconciliation Bill against Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or Snap as well as the private school voucher program.
“A direct threat to the future of our children”
“We have to make it easier for children to get an apprenticeship,” said Kelly. “We have to make it easier for children to get the support they need – a good start, a good start to life and a good career, which they can actually assert a family, and this starts right here because this congress and this white house cannot take us backwards.”
The national parent union organized the rally alongside educators for excellence, head of education of Color and Edtrust.
“Throughout the week, parents, pupils and educational people at the front of the public schools in America’s Halls of the Congress, met with members of the house, members of the Senate, made themselves and made a crystal clear: This so-called” gigantic, attractive bill “is a direct threat to the future of our children, and we are not becoming for the National-Offlog-OFFLOG organizations, in which the National-Offlog-Offloguiations Offloguiations Offloguiations Offloguiations Offloguiations-Offliguiations Offloguiations Offlogu Iations offloguiations-off-league-league-league-league-offlow-offlogui-officer-officer union unions United States.
“There is nothing big or nice to reduce billions from public education,” she said.
In the meantime, Trump’s budget request from Trump 2026 2026 is calling for Expenses of $ 12 billion In the educational department, he and his administration tried to drastically redefine the federal role in education and to reduce the agency.
GOP sensors -overhaul of the higher ED overhaul
At the beginning of this week Republicans about the Senate committee for health, education, work and pensions Published her Design proposal For the reconciliation package that offers some similarities to the provisions of the university system in the house version of the invoice.
Some similarities between the versions of the house and the Senate include: massive changes to the repayment options for student loans, the creation of a personnel pelly scholarship program and the elimination of the Grad Plus program and the saving of a valuable training or storage plan.
However, the proportion of the Senate leaves some of the most comprehensive provisions of the house that influence the affordability and access of university formation.
Unlike in the house, the version of the Senate does not raise the minimum number of loan lessons in order to qualify for the maximum Pell Grant Award from 12 loan hours per semester to 15 credit hours, and the “90/10 rule” that receives at least 10% of money-for-profit institutions is derived.
