President Donald Trump donated his salary for the second quarter of the year to the Education Department, the White House said Wednesday.

At the start of the daily press briefing, the first routine briefing to be televised in weeks, press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders announced the $100,000 donation flanked by television monitors displaying an image of a check for that amount with the president’s signature.

“The president is committed to our nation’s students and reforming education in America,” said Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, who appeared at the briefing to accept the check. The donation will be earmarked for a STEM-focused camp for students to encourage careers in science and technology, Mrs. DeVos said. The STEM program focuses on the subjects of science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Asked about a White House budget proposal calling for $9.2 billion in spending cuts to the Education Department, Ms. Sanders said that is part of a broader effort to “streamline” government. “We simply have a government that’s completely out of control when it comes to spending—we have an outrageous deficit,” Ms. Sanders said. “And we’re looking to make things so we have a balanced budget in the next 10 years.” Three months ago, Mr. Trump donated his first-quarter salary to the National Parks Service. Nearly $80,000 of that contribution was directed toward restoring the Civil War battlefield at Antietam. Write to Eli Stokols at eli.stokols@wsj.com

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