The Trump administration continues to reshape federal involvement in higher education and K-12 schools through funding decisions and policy enforcement. The University of Chicago announced a $100 million budget cut partially due to federal policy changes causing multi-year deficits, including staff layoffs. Harvard successfully challenged the administration’s freezing of $2.2 billion in federal funding in court. Separately, the administration has proposed a four-year cap on international students' duration in the U.S. and sued Illinois over in-state tuition for undocumented students. At the K-12 level, Trump’s Department of Education has aggressively pursued civil rights investigations into state and district policies, often reversing established rules on mascots, transgender athlete participation, and diversity initiatives. These moves highlight the administration's simultaneous contraction of federal education bureaucracy and increased litigation to challenge policies it opposes.