The U.S. Department of Education acknowledged it shifted or left unused about $1 billion Congress appropriated for specific education programs during the early months of President Donald Trump’s second term. Budget documents described more than $700 million moved among funding streams and roughly $300 million expiring within five months for education research that the administration did not spend. A cited example involves SEED grants, where Congress allocated $90 million but the department terminated most in-progress grants and reprogrammed funds into the American History and Civics grant program. Advocacy and budget experts said the scale of executive reprogramming is unusual in recent decades. The department framed the changes as reallocating funds away from auto-renewed grantees and “divisive ideological” projects toward targeted achievement and excellence priorities.