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FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—A House committee will likely pass a bill to reform a taxpayer-funded scholarship that critics call a “talent pipeline for the Democratic Party and liberal activist organizations,” a committee spokesperson told The Daily Signal. The spokesperson for the House Committee on Education and the Workforce predicted that the bill will pass the committee “rather easily.” It is scheduled for markup on Tuesday. The upcoming vote comes after congressional Republicans and scholars spent years denouncing the Truman Scholarship, which Congress created in honor of former President Harry Truman in 1975. “My legislation would finally reform the Truman Scholarship Foundation to promote an ideologically diverse class of recipients and ensure that only law-abiding students receive these scholarships,” Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., said about her Truman Scholarship Clean House Act in a statement to The Daily Signal. Stefanik’s bill would repeal and replace the scholarship’s current board of directors and executive secretary, allowing President Donald Trump to appoint new directors who will then have to be confirmed by the Senate. The bill would also require candidates to receive the approval of a supermajority of the board in order “to prevent highly biased individuals from serving as an interviewer.” The bill’s history traces back to testimony from Jennifer Kabbany at The College Fix last December. Kabbany told the committee that only 29 out of the 653 scholarship recipients from 2015 to 2025 had been conservative. “The Truman Scholarship Foundation seeks regional diversity in its selections and tries to award its scholarships to students from every state,” Kabbany wrote in her testimony. She noted that The College Fix’s research showed winners chosen from Republican-leaning states end up working for “progressive causes or Democratic politicians.” “The decade-long data reveals a taxpayer-funded program that, in practice, functions as a talent pipeline for the Democratic Party and liberal activist organizations,” Kabbany added during her testimony. In the same hearing, NAACP Legal Defense Fund Senior Policy Counsel Ashley Harrington accused the Trump administration and its allies in Congress of engaging in “viewpoint discrimination” by condemning the scholarship’s bias. “The recent calls for interference in the selection process for Truman Scholars represent just another attempt by the administration to influence individuals from taking on viewpoints that it disfavors,” Harrington wrote in her testimony. “This amounts to classic viewpoint discrimination.” President Harry Truman in Florida, December of 1947. (Getty Images) Stefanik condemned the scholarship’s bias as “unfortunate and inappropriate” and claimed that the Truman Scholarship Foundation “continues to award scholarships to radical left-wing students and even criminals.” “Multiple data analyses have revealed the systemic underrepresentation of conservative scholarship recipients,” the congresswoman continued. The Truman Scholarship did not immediately respond to The Daily Signal’s request for comment. The post EXCLUSIVE: Bill to Dismantle Taxpayer-Funded Democrat ‘Talent Pipeline’ Expected to Pass House Committee appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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Clay Waters just demonstrated for us how PBS and reporters like Minnesota-based Fred de Sam Lazaro sound like lobbyists for illegal immigrants. This is so-called "public" broadcasting, which until recently was subsidized by American taxpayers. The same thing is happening at National “Public” Radio. On Thursday’s Morning Edition, they aired a story under the online headline “Blue cities in red states debate over how to respond to efforts to resist ICE.” Democrats want to resist any attempt to deport people, and that’s the only people Austin-based reporter Mose Buchele talked to for this report. NPR host Steve Inskeep introduced it: “In many Republican-led states, police officers are required to cooperate with federal immigration agents. [Horrors!] And that leaves liberal cities in those conservative states debating how to respond when they don't want to spend time on immigration enforcement.” In other words, they don’t want any immigration enforcement. A state law (that the Left hates) prohibits police departments from telling officers they cannot contact federal immigration agents. The reporter explained: MOSE BUCHELE:  In Texas, state police are empowered to arrest suspected unauthorized immigrants. Many counties partner with ICE to get grants and funding. Those agreements will become mandatory for all counties by the end of the year. And [Austin police chief Lisa] Davis said Texas cities cannot prevent local officers from calling ICE if they see fit. LISA DAVIS: There is a rule of law that I have to follow as the chief of police here in the state of Texas. But what we can do... (BOOING) Leftists booing the "rule of law"? It depends on what the meaning of the "rule of law" is, apparently. Davis ends up sounding like the most right-leaning speaker in the piece.  BUCHELE: It was a tense evening. On one side, local officials explaining that breaking state law could lead to cuts to funding or them getting removed from office, on the other side, many in the audience calling for resistance, no matter the cost. Robert Saulter is a criminal defense lawyer who was one of the most vocal that night. ROBERT SAULTER: There is nothing that prevents this police chief, these city council members from refusing to cooperate with the state. BUCHELE: Heated public debates like this have also erupted in San Antonio, Dallas and Houston. Democratic cities in Tennessee, Georgia and Florida are also seeing locals push back against red state laws that mandate ICE-police partnerships. Later, NPR explains that Davis can't tell her officers not to contact ICE, but she can encourage "higher-ups" to release illegal immigrants before ICE arrives. BUCHELE: Officers can still contact ICE. But the new rules will give police higher-ups a say in whether they can hold people until ICE arrives to arrest them. DAVIS: And I can tell you, the priority is not waiting for ICE to respond on a civil detainer. BUCHELE: Officials think it's a way to thread the needle between local priorities [amnesty/sanctuary] and state law. But after the event, immigrant advocate Carmen Zuvieta said it won't help people who fear deportation feel any better about calling the police for help. CARMEN ZUVIETA: (Speaking Spanish). BUCHELE: "To gain confidence, you have to earn it. And nothing they're doing is giving us confidence," she said. For NPR News, I'm Mose Buchele in Austin. That ending is a chef-kiss of anti-ICE bias -- the dissatisfied leftists get to chew out the local cops in Spanish, and no one cringes at the notion that immigration policy is being run by people who don't feel the need to speak English. No one identifies leftists as leftists. They get generically positive descriptions like "immigrant advocate." It turns out Zuvieta is with the "Austin Sanctuary Network" -- and this meeting didn't happen this week! Buchele reported this story for Austin NPR station KUT on February 6.  Nowhere in this entire story on leftists pressuring the blue-city cops is any quote or argument from a Republican, from Gov. Greg Abbott on down. Their principle: Who needs both sides of the public on a "public" radio show?  

As the Federal Bureau of Investigation is investigating a possible terrorist shooting at Old Dominion University, the Democratic governor of Virginia is getting hit with backlash over her statements about the incident.One person was killed and two others were injured when an armed man attacked on Thursday, but other students were able to "subdue" him and kill him, according to the FBI. The deceased victim was later identified as Lt. Col. Brandon Shah, an ODU professor of military science.'She won't say it now because she's a Democrat politician. That's how evil and depraved she and her party have become.'Authorities have identified the deceased alleged shooter as Mohamed Bailor Jalloh, a former member of the Army National Guard who was previously convicted of trying to provide support to the ISIS terror group.Gov. Abigail Spanberger offered a statement that did not acknowledge the alleged killer or his likely motivation."Lt. Col. Brandon Shah was killed today in his classroom at Old Dominion University. A devoted ROTC instructor, Lt. Col. Shah didn't just lead a life of service to our country, he taught and led others to follow that path," she posted."I am grateful for his example, deeply saddened by his death, and praying for his family. Amid this tragedy, I thank the brave students, first responders, and law enforcement officers who responded quickly to today's horrific attack," she added.Spanberger was immediately assailed online by her critics."There was a time when this woman — a former CIA colleague of mine — would have unapologetically said 'Brandon Shah was killed today by an Islamic terrorist ...,'" former CIA officer Bryan Dean Wright posted. "She won't say it now because she's a Democrat politician. That's how evil and depraved she and her party have become.""If you only read the Governor of Virginia's post, you'd have no idea he was murdered by a terrorist because of his service and love of country. Purposeful omission. You're a disgrace," Fox News podcast host Riley Gaines said."WHO killed him? And why are you afraid to say it??" Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas replied.RELATED: Heroic students subdued suspected terrorist in Old Dominion attack and 'rendered him no longer alive,' says FBI "She can't even say this was an act of terrorism. So pathetic, especially ... since she has the largest naval base in her state," radio show host Jeanne Ives said.Spanberger campaigned as a moderate Democrat, but since she got into office she has implemented sweeping far-left policies that include an effort to gerrymander the state's congressional districts.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

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