The U.S. Department of Education will continue handling Pell grants, student loans, and other “critical functions” even as other parts of the agency are eliminated or shifted elsewhere, the White House said on March 20.
“The Department of Education will be much smaller than it is today,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters in Washington outside the White House, several hours before President Donald Trump is scheduled to sign an executive order to dismantle the department.
She added later: “When it comes to student loans and Pell Grants, those will still be run out of the Department of Education.”…