Here's your Forbes Daily Briefing bonus story of the week.

Today on Forbes, these billionaires are stepping up as HBCUs are squeezed by student loan cuts.

Antonio Sweeney relied on a mix of private and school scholarships, plus a federal Pell Grant for low-income students, to pay for his first two years at his dream school,

Morehouse College, in Atlanta, the alma mater of Senator Raphael Warnock, Democrat of Georgia,

and Martin Luther King, Jr. But by junior year, most of the outside scholarship money was used up,

and he had taken on so many activities,

from serving as class president to running his own side businesses, that he hadn't earned

enough credits to keep his Morehouse academic scholarship.

He filled the gap that year by taking out federal and private student loans.

Now, in his senior year, his mother has come to the rescue.

She borrowed $24,419 this fall from the federal Parent Plus program and plans to tap a similar

amount for the spring semester.

His mother, Sylvia Triplett, a Flint, Michigan special education teacher, still paying

off her own student loans, says, quote,

we're almost at the finish line, and if this is what's needed to be done for him to complete his education, then as a parent, I'm willing to do it.

Sweeney and Triplett shared their story with Forbes for a good reason.

As part of President Donald Trump's so-called One Big Beautiful Bill Act, beginning next July 1st,

new parent plus borrowers will be limited to $20,000 per school year and $65,000 over a student's

school career.

Sweeney worries, quote, it's going to force families to have to decide to tell their kids,

hey, we don't have enough money for you to go to your dream school. They're not the only ones thinking about the problem students at historically black

colleges and universities, or HBCUs, have had financing their studies. On October 13th, the family

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