Rep. Virginia Foxx threatened the taxpayer-funded status of the prestigious Truman Scholarship over its heavy anti-conservative bias.
“If the Truman Scholarship functions as a career booster solely for students of a particular political persuasion, it should no longer be worthy of congressional support, taxpayer funding, or its exalted public image,” Foxx and Reps. Robert Aderholt and Burgess Owens wrote in a letter., also questioned how it was possible that between 2021 and 2023, only six of the 182 scholarship recipients held Republican viewpoints.
“The Truman Foundation has disproportionately provided scholarship opportunities to students who favor liberal causes over conservative ones,” Foxx told the. “It is unacceptable that a publicly funded scholarship demonstrates such blatant partisanship and favoritism. The Truman Foundation must immediately address its bias so that its candidates reflect America’s wide range of values and perspectives.
“The Truman Foundation was established by Congress and is funded by taxpayers for the purpose of awarding ‘scholarships to persons who demonstrate outstanding potential for and who plan to pursue a career in public service,'” the lawmakers wrote in the letter, addressed to the foundation’s executive secretary, Dr. Terry Babcock-Lumish. “We refuse to believe that only liberal students demonstrate ‘outstanding potential’ in public service.
“Our nation is almost evenly split between Democrats and Republicans/conservatives and liberals. Therefore, there is no reason for this taxpayer-funded scholarship program to have its thumb on the scales in favor of students with liberal viewpoints,” Aderholt, chairman of the Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies, told thein a statement.
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