White House officials say the GOP-backed budget that passed in the U.S. House on Thursday would hurt Hawaii’s middle class families and students. 

They said in a statement on Thursday that it would:

• Undermine college affordability: The typical student would see his or her Pell Grant fall by $830 in 2014, making it more difficult to afford college. 

• Reduce work-study opportunities: 170 Hawaii students would lose work-study job opportunities in 2014, which help them pay their way through college.

• Dramatically cut funding for special education: Hawaii would lose $14 million in Title I and IDEA funding for its elementary and secondary schools. 

• Reduce access to Head Start for Hawaii families: Over the next two years, 1,000 children would lose access to Head Start, a program that helps promote school readiness.

“The Ryan Republican budget draws on the same wrong-headed theory that led to the worst recession of our lifetimes and contributed to the erosion of middle-class security over the last decade,” Obama administration officials wrote. “And the President believes we cannot return to a failed theory that didn’t lead to the growth of jobs, incomes, or the economy.”