US President Donald Trump earned a significant political victory when US Congress passed his "Big Beautiful Bill." But Trump's signature tax and spending policy isn't popular, even within his own party.

President Donald Trump’s tax and spending legislative package is expected to have sweeping impacts on higher education. Duke’s main concerns fall into three key areas.

The agreement requires the university to follow Title IX as interpreted by the Department of Education and adopt Trump's executive order defining sex as biological.

The University of Pennsylvania has agreed with the Trump administration to disavow and apologize for having allowed transgender women to compete in female-only sports under past National Collegiate Athletic Association rules and to erase any athletic records and titles they earned.

The Trump administration has released $175 million in previously frozen federal funding to the University of Pennsylvania, a White House official told CNN, following an agreement on how the university would handle transgender athletes.