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(NewsNation) — A time aft signing an executive order to statesman dissolving the Department of Education, President Donald Trump has announced wherever immoderate of the agency's programs volition extremity up.
The president has not yet provided a timeline for the agencies' responsibilities to transfer.
SBA to grip pupil loans: Trump
The nation's pupil indebtedness portfolio volition beryllium handled by the Small Business Administration, Trump said Friday.
The Education Department presently runs the biggest assistance programme for low-income students, the Pell Grant program, on with look backing and pupil loans.
It is chartless whether transferring the indebtedness purview to SBA volition disrupt oregon hold services successful administering loans.
This determination echoes Trump's erstwhile promises astir the programs. On Thursday, Trump said the DOE's “useful functions specified arsenic Pell grants, Title I funding, resources for children with disabilities and peculiar needs volition beryllium afloat preserved.”
“They are going to beryllium preserved successful afloat and redistributed to different agencies and departments,” helium said.
Trump: RFK Jr. volition grip peculiar needs, nutrition programs
Trump connected Friday said the the Health and Human Services Department, led by Robert F. Kennedy, volition grip peculiar needs and nutrition programs.
Kennedy's "Make America Healthy Again" rhetoric has targeted America's nutrient supply, specifically food additives and mediocre nutrition among children.
The HHS caput has drawn disapproval from the disablement assemblage implicit his past linking of autism and vaccines, which helium doubled down connected during his Congressional confirmation hearing for the HHS position.
NewsNation's Elina Shirazi, Ashley N. Soriano contributed to this report.
