President Trump’s fiscal 2027 budget proposal would cut multiple Education Department programs tied to student access, support services, and education research, with minority-serving institutions facing reductions and TRIO/Gear Up facing elimination. The plan would lower discretionary Education Department funding to $76.5 billion, a 2.9% decline from fiscal 2026, while higher education-specific programs would lose $2.7 billion. TRIO and Gear Up would again be targeted for elimination, along with the full $910 million for Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants that support lowest-income students. The budget also calls for sharply reduced Federal Work-Study funding to $123 million (a 90% cut from fiscal 2025), and it would trim the Office for Civil Rights to $91 million, a 35% reduction, while cutting the Institute of Education Sciences to about $261 million. Outside Education, the proposal would further reduce federal research budgets, cutting NIH to $41 billion and slashing the National Science Foundation to roughly $4 billion—sharpening pressure on university research portfolios and compliance-driven reporting tied to federal grantmaking.