{"id":6219,"date":"2025-02-07T08:00:41","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T14:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/government-relations\/?p=6219"},"modified":"2025-02-26T10:50:56","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T16:50:56","slug":"weekly-federal-update-february-7-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/government-relations\/2025\/02\/07\/weekly-federal-update-february-7-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"February 7, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Federal Updates Web Page Launched<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The working group launched a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/government-relations\/federal-updates-working-group\/federal-updates\/\">Federal Updates web page<\/a> for the public to learn about the Universities of Wisconsin response to the federal issues. This page will contain communications shared with the universities.\u00a0Visitors can also access this page from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/government-relations\/\">Government Relations home page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Recent Federal Actions\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>White House Executive Order: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/2025\/02\/keeping-men-out-of-womens-sports\/\">&#8220;Keeping Men Out of Women\u2019s Sports&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Department of Education Release: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ed.gov\/about\/news\/press-release\/us-department-of-education-announces-improvements-fafsar-form\">&#8220;U.S. Department of Education Announces Improvements to the FAFSA Form&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Senate Committee Hearing on Education Dept. Secretary Nominee<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee has scheduled the confirmation hearing for Linda McMahon, nominee for the Department of Education for Thursday, February 13<span style=\"font-size: 10.5px\">,<\/span> at 9:00 a.m. You can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.help.senate.gov\/hearings\/nomination-of-linda-mcmahon-to-serve-as-secretary-of-education\">watch the nomination hearing<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federal Updates Web Page Launched The working group launched a Federal Updates web page for the public to learn about the Universities of Wisconsin response to the federal issues. This page will contain communications shared with the universities.\u00a0Visitors can also access this page from the Government Relations home page. Recent Federal Actions\u00a0 White House Executive [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2368,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fed-friday-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/government-relations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/government-relations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/government-relations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/government-relations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2368"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/government-relations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6219"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/government-relations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6282,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/government-relations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6219\/revisions\/6282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/government-relations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/government-relations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/government-relations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}