I once had to buy an extra bag in Portland to take home all the books I *needed*

Bagels with cream cheese and lox would like a word.

Green = explicitly in WH proposal. If the line item is blank for FY26, it's proposed to be cut or consolidated. You can see the top-line year-over-year changes relative to FY25 in columns F.

***Note: because of prior year obligations, line-items don't add up perfectly (much to my chagrin).

Please let me know if anything looks off (I started getting a little loopy around 2am 😵‍💫) or if you have any questions! You can roll-up by budget authority categories or drill down to individual appropriations.

I'm sharing my analysis because this stuff is highly complex and it can only help to get more eyes on this and work together to figure out the details of this proposal so we can advocate to protect the programs that are most impactful for students and communities.

docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Programmatically, they propose eliminating or consolidating about 57% of prior appropriations.

I spent Friday night reconciling the new line-item proposal with the chart I already had (at least I got to listen to Reputation!) Now with the whole budget, there are more cuts (I get $13.5B relative to FY25 estimated), but the denominator is larger, so it's still about 15% proposed cut overall.

The other big 🤔 for me was WHICH grants were being consolidated to $2B. Here again, the math wasn't mathing for me. Any combination that I looked at, it seemed like the cuts would have to be much higher to achieve that outcome. Lastly, the line-item cuts didn't add up to the reported $12B cut.

The biggest 🤔 for me was that the original proposal said the current education budget was $78B, but I was coming up with numbers much higher than that in prior bills (more like $90B). Would that mean that the actual proposed cuts would be higher? (Spoiler alert: yes...)

Me trying to align the detailed FY24 and FY25 proposed appropriations bills with the “consolidated” appropriations law with the White House proposal.

It will also be telling how they handle this block grant proposal from a legislative stand-point. Lots of options with varying implications for equity and accountability— especially with IDEA.

Ok that was exactly my read, too. That’s why I think the “preserving Title” language is misleading because it’s going into a whole bucket that is getting a big cut… that’s a functional cut to Title if not an explicit one.

Based on adding up all the line item cuts I think it has to be additional… but I’m trying to figure out what else is in that bucket 🤔 and it still doesn’t add up to $12b

Have you seen clarity on what else is in the ($4.5B) consolidation cut? It seems to be inconsistent in terms of what they pulled out for line-item cuts. The other K-12 programs called out for cuts “only” add up to $2.7b by my count… I can’t figure out of that’s includes in the $4.5b or in addition…

I do! 🙋🏻‍♀️🙋🏻‍♀️🙋🏻‍♀️

A 10% conversion rate to (still) Married is crazy.