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The Trump administration is releasing about $ 6.8 billion in the already frozen federal funds for the K -12 programs, the education department on Friday announced. The announcement was made as Secretary Linda McMahon, participated in a summer meeting in the National Governors Association (NGA) Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Management and Budget (OMB) office has completed its review of “Title IC, Title II-A, Title III-A and Title IV-A ESEA funds and title II WIOA funds and directed the department to release all formula funds. The agency will start funds to the states next week,” The department spokesman Maddi Bidramain.
More than 20 Democratic Attorney General sued the Trump administration earlier this month, in which the Federal Funding Freeze of the Education Department was described as unconstitutional and “weak” for states just a few weeks before a new school year.
The bipartisan group of the governors, the outgoing chair of the NGA, the village’s village Jred Polis and its Vice Chair, the village. Kevin stit Oklahoma, thanked McMahon for unlocking funding during the NGA’s education session on Friday.
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Education Secretary Linda McMahon testifies in a house committee on the budget hearing on the education department on Capital Hill on May 21, 2025 in Washington. (AP Photo/Rod Laki, Junior)
“How can we communicate better to ensure that this chaos and uncertainty are not again around money and people know the first things?” Police asked McMahon on the colloorado springs stage.
McMahon said, “There is no guarantee to me that we will eliminate all communication intervals, but I can say that its share is just an infection aspect.”
The Education Secretary said that the other aspect of the Federal Funding Freeze was that the OMB budget office “took some time to review the title funding to watch all the programs, etc., before they were released. They were well satisfied. So, now, those funds are going out.”
The Trump administrator demanded the local governments to draw funding.
Colorado village. Jreds Polis, National Governors Association’s outgoing chair, Colorado Springs, in Kolo, on Friday, July 25, 2025, discusses US education with Linda McMahon at NGA Summer Meeting. (Deirdre Heavey/Fox News Digital)
McMahon assured the governors that now they have reviewed the title funding and have gone through this process, “We will not find ourselves in the same position.”
Police and McMahon’s education had the opportunity to ask many governors and questions participating in the discussion, thanked the states for returning the federal title fund.
Polis closed the summer session of NGA at Colorado Springs on Friday Signature policy agenda“Let’s get ready! Educate all Americans for success.”
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Education Secretary Linda McMahon comments on Friday, 25 July at the National Governors Association Summer Meeting in Colorado Springs, Kolo. (Deirdre Heavey/Fox News Digital)
McMahon said that she was appreciating the questions and comments of the governors, and she was committed to speaking as many states as and more and more governors to understand the full scope of diverse educational needs of the country.
Police and stits said in a joint statement issued by the NGA that “he was thankful to the distribution of these education funds with Secretary McMahon and other prominent officials during the NGA summer meeting.”
The NGA leaders said, “This action ensures that schools across the nation can maintain the necessary programs for the promotion of English language learning, teacher training and new academic year,” emphasizing that “the governors of both sides are united in giving priority to our children’s education, and we are proud that our laws help to protect this important support for the states and the district.”
In a special interview with Fox News Digital further of his comment, McMahon confirmed his commitment to cooperate with the governors as the Trump administration attempts to destroy the education department.
“It is incredibly important that if we are going to return education to the states, we have to talk to the governors,” McMahon said.
“Clearly, education is a nonpartison issue,” McMahon said. “If we are going to return education to the states, it means giving them back the part that is now provided by the federal government, and they are concerned about it.”
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Trump signed an executive order earlier this year During the 2024 presidential election, fulfilling one of his major campaign promises, to end the Education Department.
Breanne Depipisch of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.
