Daines: Montanans Should Not be on the Hook For Antisemitic Criminal’ Student Loans
By Denise Rivette
U.S. Senator Steve Daines joined Senator Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) in introducing the “No Bailouts for Campus Criminals Act” which would prevent any individual who is convicted of a state or federal offense in connection with a campus protest ineligible for any federal student loan relief.
“The very universities that tout diversity and inclusion are enabling anti-Jew, pro-terror groups to wreak havoc on their campuses and harm Jewish students with violent, antisemitic threats. If any student involved in a crime related to these immoral, un-American protests, their federal aid should be revoked. Freedom loving Americans shouldn’t be on the hook to pay off student loans for criminals who advocate for terror and hatred,” said Daines.
Read the full text of the bill HERE.
Daines also joined Senator Tim Scott (R-S.C.) in introducing a resolution condemning the recent outbreak of antisemitism on U.S. college campuses, calling out university presidents who have enabled the harmful acts and urging the Biden Department of Education to take necessary action in protecting Jewish students.
Earlier this month, Daines delivered remarks at the weekly Republican Senate Leadership press conference calling on the Biden Administration and Senate Democrats to join him in condemning the antisemitic pro-terror mobs threatening Jewish students on college campuses throughout the country.
“The outbreak of antisemitism on college campuses across America right now at this moment is reprehensible. This kind of hate has no place in America. And I've got to point out the hypocrisy here. These elite universities, they tout diversity and inclusion as long as Jewish students and Jewish professors are excluded. What hypocrisy that we're seeing at this moment in our country. The First Amendment does protect speech, it does not protect the right to threaten or intimidate Jewish students, much less the violence occurring on campuses.
“Yet that is what we're seeing across our country today. So, we need to ask ourselves, why are the tax dollars of freedom-loving Americans funding these universities? Let me give you a few examples. Columbia, they have breached a building, the Hamilton building, $1.2 billion last year from the federal government. UCLA, where they're using wristbands to identify anti-Israel students, nearly a billion dollars. GW, a little closer here to Washington, D.C., where a Palestinian flag now hangs from the statue of George Washington. $200 million of American tax dollars go into that institution.
“So, I have this message to send to President Biden and every single Senate Democrat: Join me, join my Republican colleagues in condemning these violent protests, and defund the universities that refuse to crack down.”