Showdown Over HBCU Funding Escalates in Senate

A SENATE SHOWDOWN OVER how to fund historically black colleges and universities and other minority-serving institutions escalated Tuesday, with Democrats offering a short-term extension that already cleared the House and Republicans proposing a permanent funding mechanism as part of a larger package of bipartisan higher education proposals.

The dueling legislative strategies, both offered under unanimous consent and objected to on the Senate floor, are the latest developments in an ongoing game of chicken between the two sides of the aisle with each hoping the other blinks first. They come after federal funding for HBCUs expired Oct. 1, when Congress failed to extend it.

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