Expand targeted aid and grants for students who cannot afford college.

Expand targeted aid and grants for students who can’t afford the price of college.

She pledges to broaden need-based financial aid for college students.

Representative Lori Trahan Congresswoman Lori Trahan was born and raised in a working-class family in Lowell, Massachusetts. She is the mom of two young girls and proudly represents Massachusetts' 3rd Congressional District.
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Trahan's Education page says she supports making higher education, including community colleges, technical education, and apprenticeships, affordable and accessible to all, and says she helped craft the College Affordability Act, including her Net Price Calculator Act and other higher-education provisions.

Official House page shows Trahan publicly backed affordability-focused higher-education policy and worked on college-cost legislation, but it does not itself prove enactment of expanded grants.

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Page | U.S. Representative Lori Trahan
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Congress.gov shows the College Affordability Act was reported to the House and would revise federal student financial aid programs, including increasing the maximum federal Pell Grant award, expanding the availability of financial aid to postsecondary students, and increasing college access and success for low-income students and students with disabilities.

This is concrete evidence that House Democrats advanced a bill with the exact kinds of aid and grant expansions described in the claim, although it never became law.

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H.R. 4674 - College Affordability Act - All Information
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Congress.gov states that section 2003 of the American Rescue Plan provided additional funding for institutions of higher education and required institutions to allocate at least half of those funds to emergency financial-aid grants to students.

Trahan voted for a law that expanded targeted student aid through emergency grants, which is the clearest enacted example of college aid expansion in her record.

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H.R. 1319 - American Rescue Plan Act of 2021
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Trahan said the American Rescue Plan funding for higher education was designed to help keep students safe and on track, and the release notes that at least half of the money for colleges and universities had to be distributed as emergency cash assistance grants to students facing hunger, homelessness, and other hardships.

Her office described the ARP higher-education money as student cash-grant aid for students with urgent financial need, matching the claim's targeted-aid theme.

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Trahan, Donoghue, UMass Lowell Leaders Highlight American Rescue Plan Funding
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