"The House Education and Workforce Committee advanced a bill Tuesday that would allow President Trump to fire multiple leaders and dismiss all board members of the Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation, an independent government agency and annual grant competition that multiple Republican committee members claim has become a 'program to train professional leftists,'" Inside Higher Ed reports.

... "Still, financial aid experts and college access advocates remain concerned. Social Security numbers are needed to help set up parental Federal Student Aid ID accounts and ensure the required tax information is provided on the application. But unless the parent or guardian is seeking to borrow a Parent PLUS loan, they explained, their citizenship status is 'irrelevant' and 'constitutes a privacy breach.'"

"'While we appreciate the desire for operational efficiency, it should not be at the expense of basic privacy rights,' Melanie Storey, president and CEO of the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators, told Inside Higher Ed. 'This bill would simply codify a process for gathering information that is not necessary to verify student eligibility and is outside the boundaries of current computer-matching agreements.'"

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Publication Date: 3/18/2026