President Donald Trump’s ego knows no bounds, and GOP legislators know it, which is why they’ve come up with the idea to name a new Pell Grant after him.

Trump’s “One Big, Beautiful Bill” created the Workforce Pell Grant, in which low-income students can receive Pell Grants while in career training programs for “in-demand industry sectors or occupations.”

These short-term programs are no more than 15 weeks and aim to prepare people for high-skill, high-wage jobs.

There was a bipartisan push for this new grant, which will be a great funding source for some community college programs. But there’s a legitimate fear that, instead, it will be used to get students into for-profit, slapdash programs.

There are a lot of “coding boot camps” and the like that have scammed students. In 2021, thre

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