Monday, the government issued this long-overdue announcement:
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said, “Anti-Semitism – like racism – is a spiritual and moral malady that sickens societies and kills people with lethalities comparable to history’s most...
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“Today, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Department of Education (ED), and the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) announced a comprehensive review of Columbia University’s federal contracts and grants in light of ongoing investigations for potential violations of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act.”
This was prompted by Columbia’s “ongoing inaction in the face of relentless harassment of Jewish students,” and it could endanger the school’s $51.4 million in government contracts and $5 billion in federal grants.
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said, “Anti-Semitism – like racism – is a spiritual and moral malady that sickens societies and kills people with lethalities comparable to history’s most deadly plagues. In recent years, the censorship and false narratives of woke cancel culture have transformed our great universities into greenhouses for this deadly and virulent pestilence. Making America healthy means building communities of trust and mutual respect, based on speech freedom and open debate.”
And if that doesn’t drive home the message to leftist college administrators, the DOJ’s anti-Semitism task force is planning visits to 10 campuses, including Columbia, Harvard, UCLA, UC-Berkeley, USC, Northwestern and NYU, to see how they’re dealing with harassment of Jewish students.
President Trump also posted on Truth Social that “All federal funding will STOP for any college, school or university that allows illegal protests. Agitators will be imprisoned or sent back to the country from which they came. American students will be permanently expelled, or depending on the crime, arrested. NO MASKS! Thank you for your attention to this matter.”
Let’s find out what these college officials are really more afraid of: Their own radical, terrorist-supporting students or getting the federal gravy train shut off.
Change of heart, "Columbia ready to work with Trump to bolster disciplinary process that was 'only on paper'", https://www.foxnews.com/person/w/rachel-wolf, money talks and Trump is a real leader, but I'm more interested in exactly what the $400M was buying then the money itself. They can crack down on antisemitism all day and I would not restore a dollar unless the public hears what this money is going for. The interim president says the cuts will "immediately impact research and other critical functions", but we already an Agricultural Agency "research" topic was studying the "transgender male menstrual cycles", and what "critical functions" are we talking about that should not be paid for by the university as opposed to a grant. This is exactly why it is necessary for DOGE to peer into every corner of government spending, no exceptions.
Saw this article, "Republicans call for Trump to cut off American Bar Association", https://www.foxnews.com/person/w/rachel-wolf, and I must confess I don't know what the governments relationship is with the ABA. I agree with the sentiment expressed in the letter, The ABA's comment about USAID alone is reason enough to treat this group like the plague. Trump's action toward the USAID broke no laws and in fact upheld the law regarding misuse of taxpayer funds. I understand from the article that the ABA has been instrumental in making judgeship recommendations, but a recommendation means noting unless it is a good one that stands on its own merits. What measures with respect to the ABA are appropriate or being proposed? After a little research I think I have at least a partial answer to my question. Very briefly this is the "history of the ABA from their own website, "The ABA was founded in 1878 on a commitment to set the legal and ethical foundation for the American nation. Today, it exists as a membership organization and stands committed to its mission of defending liberty and pursuing justice.". On this basis alone I think Trump needs to establish (perhaps via Congress) an official legal licensing organization that is answerable to the DOJ. The ABA as I guess the letter was trying to point out has become irretrievably corrupted. If such an official licensing organization was created one of their first assignments might be to reassess all "ABA license holders" (lawyers and judges) to determine their fitness to continue to serve in a legal capacity (i.e., get re-licensed according to a Constitutional Standard), no more "humanistic - ethics are anything you would like them to be", or "legal" by the same definition.