Last week president Trump signed a bill which reopened the government temporarily without any funding for the border wall, the issue that started the shutdown back in December. The government shutdown, which lasted for 35 days, was the longest in U.S. history during which hundreds of thousands of federal employees, roughly 40 percent of the… Continue reading Home of the free, land of the border wall
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Paid forward: Shutdown does not affect spring financial aid
Financial aid for the spring 2019 semester at UTM will not be halted or delayed because of the partial federal government shutdown. According to StudentLoan-Hero.com, financial aid is safe because the U.S. Department of Education had already set and approved the budget for the year. Financial aid for students is forward-funded from mandatory programs that… Continue reading Paid forward: Shutdown does not affect spring financial aid