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Trump First Year: Business Impact

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What to Expect from the New Administration and the 119th Congress

In a business environment characterized by tremendous change and impact as a the result of the new Trump Administration and  119th Congress. Crowell is focused on providing clients with timely and actionable insights that can help to inform forward-looking business priorities and strategies. We will continue to update and expand the list of focus areas and the impact insights included within each area.

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Client Alert | 2 min read | 09.22.25

Department of Education Discontinues Discretionary Grant Funding for Minority-Serving Institutions

The Department of Education (DOE) announced on September 10, 2025, that it will end discretionary funding to several Minority-Serving Institution (MSI) grant programs that, it stated, “discriminate by conferring government benefits exclusively to institutions that meet racial or ethnic quotas.”[1] The agency stated that it would “us[e] its statutory authority to reprogram discretionary funds to programs that do not present such concerns.”[2] This announcement follows a July 2025 decision by the Department of Justice to no longer defend the constitutionality of a provision of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA) that authorizes grant funding to Hispanic-Serving institutions, after determining that such programs “violate the equal-protection component of the Fifth Amendment’s Due Process Clause.”[3]...