Short-Term Pell Amendment Blocked in Congress

The House Rules Committee has shot down an attempt to add legislation expanding the Pell Grant to workforce training programs that run between eight to 14 weeks to a must-pass national security and military bill. Sponsors of the Bipartisan Workforce Pell Act sought to attach the bill as an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2025. It was one of more than 1,300 proposed amendments to the legislation. In the end, the Rules Committee, which met Tuesday, decided that just 350 of those amendments were considered “in order,” or relevant to the underlying legislation. Pell expansion didn’t make the cut.