Further, the President’s FY26 budget has proposed eliminating funding for Title III and Title VI of the Higher Education Act, which funds both domestic language education programs and Fulbright-Hays study abroad programs. The President’s budget also proposes to consolidate into a single K-12 block grant $6.5 billion in existing programs, including Title II-A, Title IV-A (a flexible block grant), Alaska Native Education and Native Hawaiian Education, and slash total funding by nearly 70%.

While JNCL-NCLIS is working hard to ensure F25 dollars are allocated to states and districts as Congress intended and that all key language education programs are protected from proposed budget cuts in FY26, we need your voices to amplify these messages on Capitol Hill. Please send emails to your Senators and Representatives today!