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— edited excerpt from AAUW Action Network follows:

Tell Your Representative: Reject Cuts to Higher Ed.:

A budget reconciliation process allows bills to move quickly with a lower vote threshold, requiring a simple majority in the House and Senate.

Last week, the House Education & Workforce Committee advanced a reconciliation bill that would end Graduate PLUS loans—a lifeline for many graduate students, the majority of whom are women.

At AAUW, we’ve seen firsthand how advanced degrees fuel women’s leadership and economic security — and as the largest non-institutional funder of women’s graduate education, we know how essential financial aid is to that success.

A loan can be the difference between a woman completing her degree or being forced to drop out, still saddled with debt that’s even more difficult to repay. A college student may abandon her pursuit of graduate education as she faces untenable costs.

Tell your representative to stand with women and students by opposing these dangerous cuts.