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The laws requiring equal treatment of girls and women in education would still have to be administered; college financial aid applications would still have to be processed; Pell Grants and student loans would still have to be overseen.

It remains unknown what would become of certain popular Department of Education programs, such as Pell grants to college students, if Trump goes ahead with the plan to disband the department.

However, increasing federal Pell Grants for low-income students has drawn bipartisan support.

Rep. Virginia Foxx, the North Carolina Republican who chaired the House committee that grilled university presidents this year on their campus efforts to combat antisemitism, has proposed doubling the Pell Grant for third- and fourth-year students on track to graduate.

Until recently, only around 10% of its students were eligible to receive Pell Grants, a typical measure of a university’s success in serving lower-income students.