Democrats: DeVos overstepped by blocking emergency aid to undocumented college students

Congressional Democrats say Education Secretary Betsy DeVos exceeded her authority by cutting undocumented college students out of access to emergency federal aid to cover expenses like food, housing and child care

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Sens. Michael Bennet and Bob Menendez urged DeVos in a letter Monday to reverse her restrictions because the economic rescue law, H.R. 748 , included no explicit limitations on which students could receive $6 billion in emergency cash grants. The senators said that the grants should be available to hundreds of thousands of students illegally brought to the country as children but shielded from deportation under the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.

to those students who are eligible for federal financial aid, which includes only U.S. citizens and some legal permanent residents. It also leaves out many students in dual enrollment programs who don’t have a high school diploma.The FDA let over a hundred coronavirus antibody tests go to market

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