Bob Good: “I support the DETERRENT Act, and I urge all Members to vote for this bill. Education is a battleground for influence…”

“I support the DETERRENT Act, and I urge all Members to vote for this bill. Education is a battleground for influence, and it seems that foreign countries understand this better than some Members of this Congress. On our watch, the Federal Government doles out billions in taxpayer dollars to fund expensive degrees that empower an anti-American agenda while these woke universities secretly collect checks from hostile nations and watch their endowments grow and grow. The DETERRENT Act would strengthen existing law, requiring colleges to publicly report gifts and contracts with foreign countries. Under the DETERRENT Act, this information would be publicly available on a searchable database because taxpayers, parents, and students deserve to see who is buying the opportunity to influence the next generation of Americans. The DETERRENT Act would further expose disturbing data that has recently come to light. At least 200 American colleges declined to report a total of $13 billion in contributions from authoritarian countries like Qatar, China, and Saudi Arabia. For some reason, the Biden administration has halted many of the existing investigations of reporting violations and has declined to enforce current law. Why would that be? Could it have something to do with the $14 million donated to the Penn Biden Center from unnamed contributors in China?…”