The House Republican tax bill generated an uproar among graduate students when it proposed a tax on their tuition waivers that would cost many of them thousands of dollars a year. That provision seems to be gone in the final Republican compromise bill, but another piece of Republican legislation heading to the House floor could spell even more trouble for college affordability. The bill, “Promoting Real Opportunity, Success, and Prosperity Through Education Reform Act”—known as the PROSPER Act—seeks to reauthorize the Higher Education Act of 1965, the law that directs the federal government’s role in higher education.