Rashida Tlaib: “This bill is yet another Republican attack aimed at dismantling higher education in our Nation. Last week, we know that…”

“This bill is yet another Republican attack aimed at dismantling higher education in our Nation. Last week, we know that President Trump ordered the illegal elimination of the Department of Education, threatening the future of millions of children across every district in our country. He is using the threat of cutting off Federal funding as a negative approach, very much taking a tool right here to pressure the universities and administrations to submit to his will in violation of freedom of speech for their students. Mr. Chair, instead of addressing any of these crises threatening our students in our education system, we are here voting today on a bill that goes after foreign scapegoats instead. We know that President Trump is the biggest threat to our education system in America right now, not someone in North Korea or China. Please, give me a break. I fully support financial transparency in our universities. No one is against that. No one. That is why I am introducing amendments to this bill to ensure that transparency around our universities and the relationships with so-called countries of concern include countries whose leaders have active arrest warrants issued against them by the International Criminal Court, to include countries actively on trial with the International Court of Justice for violating the Genocide Convention and the Geneva Conventions. I am calling for transparency, Mr.…”