{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://crane.house.gov/2023/12/08/media-press-releases-crane-introduces-bill-defund-americas-hate-filled-elite-institutions/", "Crane Introduces Bill to Defund America\u2019s Hate-filled \u201cElite\u201d Institutions", "2023-12-08", "2023", "2023-12", "Republican", "House", "AZ", "Elijah Crane", "C001132", "crane.house.gov", "crane", "https://crane.house.gov/media/", "scraper", "Yesterday, following a shocking hearing of the House Committee on Education where the presidents of Harvard, MIT, and Penn offered despicably inadequate responses to calls for violence against Jewish students on their campuses, Rep. Eli Crane (R-AZ) introduced the No Taxpayer Funding for Ivy League Schools Act.\n\nThe bill would halt federal funding for any university in the country with an endowment greater than $5 billion.\n\nCurrently, 21 educational institutions in the United States have endowments that fall into this category, including every Ivy League university. Most of these schools saw alarming increases in antisemitic activity on their campuses following the October 7th Hamas terror attack against Israel, with blatant calls for genocide and Jewish students fearing for their lives.\n\nThese institutions did little to protect their students, instead helping to cultivate antisemitic environments sympathetic to genocidal terrorists.\n\nRight now, American taxpayers are on the hook to finance institutions that function as breeding grounds for hateful, anti-American ideology. That\u2019s on top of the hard-earned tax dollars they\u2019re forced to shill out to the students at these institutions thanks to President Biden\u2019s student loan giveaway. Students at these institutions take out loans to pay for their indoctrination. Then, the Biden Administration misuses American tax dollars to pay the schools off, instead of holding the students accountable for their financial decisions.\n\nThe bottom line is that the American people are being forced to fund hateful indoctrination from multiple angles and it\u2019s time to pull the plug.\n\nDespite the heads of these \u201celite\u201d institutions droning on about racial and economic \u201cequity,\u201d they\u2019re more than happy to reap the benefits of absurd amounts of federal funding while critical rural institutions like Navajo Nation\u2019s Din\u00e9 College \u2013 the first tribal college in America \u2013 are often ignored.\n\n\u201cBankrolling institutions that sympathize with terrorists is unthinkable \u2013 especially with $33 trillion in national debt. The \u201celite\u201d institutions of this country are failing the American people & abusing federal funds,\u201d said Rep. Crane. \u201cWe have to start reining in our national debt somewhere and what better place to start than eliminating federal subsidies for overvalued institutions that consistently undermine American values?\u201d\n\nPer the legislation, the following universities would be impacted: Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Princeton, MIT, UPenn, Notre Dame, Northwestern, Columbia, Washington University in St. Louis, Duke, UChicago, Vanderbilt, Emory, Cornell, Johns Hopkins, Dartmouth, Rice, University of Southern California, Brown, and NYU.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-08T01:14:16Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://crane.house.gov/2023/12/08/media-press-releases-crane-introduces-bill-defund-americas-hate-filled-elite-institutions/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.7743990756571293, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}