How Congress's Spending Plans Compare With Obama's - Government

How Congress's Spending Plans for Higher Education Compare With Obama's

Congressional appropriators are in step with the president's plans for spending on student aid and science for the 2010 fiscal year, but not in all areas.

	Current spending	White House proposal for 2010	Change in % from 2009	Change in latest House proposal from White House plan	Change in latest Senate proposal from White House plan
Pell Grants	$5,350	$5,550	3.7%	0%	0%
Federal Work-Study Program	$980,492	$980,492	0%	0%	0%
Supplemental grants	$757,465	$757,465	0%	0%	0%
TRIO program for disadvantaged students	$848,089	$848,089	0%	2.4%	0%
Gear Up	$313,212	$313,212	0%	6.4%	0%
Leveraging Educational Assistance Partnership	$63,852	$63,852	0%	0%	80.6%
Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education	$133,667	$47,424	-64.5%	182.4%	0%
Aid to historically black colleges	$238,095	$250,000	5.0%	13.3%	0%
Aid to historically black graduate institutions	$58,500	$61,425	5.0%	0%	0%
Aid to predominantly black institutions	$0	$7,875	--	0%	0%
Aid to Hispanic-serving institutions	$93,256	$97,919	5.0%	39.9%	0%
Aid to tribally controlled colleges	$23,158	$24,316	5.0%	48.1%	0%
Aid to Alaska Native- and Native Hawaiian-serving institutions	$11,579	$12,158	5.0%	48.1%	0%
Aid to Asian-American-, Native American-, and Pacific Islander-serving institutions	$2,500	$2,625	5.0%	74.3%	0%
Aid to Native American-serving, nontribal institutions	$0	$2,625	--	74.3%	0%
Vocational education: state grants	$1,160,911	$1,160,911	0%	0%	0%
Tech-prep education	$102,923	$102,293	0%	0%	0%
National Institutes of Health	$30,395,000	$30,838,000	1.5%	1.4%	-0.3%
National Science Foundation	$6,490,400	$7,045,000	8.5%	-1.5%	-1.8%
Energy Department Office of Science	$4,757,636	$4,941,682	3.9%	0.04%	-0.9%
National Aeronautics and Space Administration: science	$4,503,019	$4,477,200	-0.6%	0.4%	0.9%
Agriculture Department: cooperative research and education	$691,043	$622,892	-9.9%	13.7%	21.7%
Agriculture Department: cooperative extension	$474,250	$487,005	2.7%	-0.3%	0.9%
National Endowment for the Humanities	$155,000	$171,315	10.5%	-0.8%	-5.8%
National Endowment for the Arts	$155,000	$161,315	4.1%	5.4%	0%
All dollar figures except those for Pell Grants are in thousands.
Note: In the 2009 fiscal year, Native American-serving and predominantly black colleges received aid in a supplemental spending bill, as did most minority-serving institutions.