A bill introduced Thursday by Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik seeks to reform the federally funded Truman Scholarship Foundation, whose leaders have doled out the prestigious scholarships overwhelmingly to left-wing students for the last decade.

Each year, the Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation provides $30,000 to about 50 students for graduate school in exchange for pledging three years of work in public service.

The “Truman Scholarship Clean House Act” comes after annual research conducted by The College Fix found that of the 653 winners from 2015 to 2025, only 29 conservative recipients were identified compared to 397 liberals, based on their public bios, LinkedIn profiles, and social media accounts.

The Fix’s research also showed how the program is a left-wing talent pipeline, as it spawns Democratic and progressive careers over Republican and conservative ones by a margin of 35 to 1.

“It is unfortunate and inappropriate that the Truman Scholarship Foundation continues to award scholarships to radical left-wing students — even criminals — rather than address the glaring political imbalance within its organization,” Rep. Stefanik said in a statement to The College Fix on Thursday.

“Multiple data analyses have revealed the systemic underrepresentation of conservative scholarship recipients. … 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,” the Republican congresswoman from New York said in the statement provided to The Fix.

Her bill proposes to fire the current board of directors and executive secretary and empower President Trump to name new directors with the advice and consent of the Senate.

To address bias against conservative candidates, the bill would require that interviewers who select Truman winners be approved by a supermajority of the board “to prevent highly biased individuals from serving as an interviewer,” states a summary of the bill.

It would also require “that no more than half of each board of interviewers who select Truman winners be from the same political party, to prevent interview panels from being dominated by one political party,” the summary states.

The legislation would also ban illegal immigrants from eligibility. Moreover, it would establish a code of conduct that scholarship applicants cannot be a felon, cannot have been suspended or expelled, and cannot have served as a leader of a student organization that has been suspended for misconduct.

The Truman Foundation’s Executive Secretary Terry Babcock-Lumish did not respond to a request for comment Thursday from The College Fix.

Stefanik, who was appointed to serve as a board member of the Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation last May, has sounded the alarm on the bias within, especially flagging one recipient who openly supports the terrorist organization Hamas.

“One of the most egregious examples is there was a 2025 Truman Scholar who publicly espoused support for Hamas … and we need to address this rise of antisemitism with some of the recipients of the Truman Scholarship program,” Stefanik said in December during a House Education and Workforce subcommittee hearing on bias within the Truman program.

At that hearing, College Fix editor Jennifer Kabbany, along with Frederick Hess, director of education policy at the American Enterprise Institute, and Adam Kissel, visiting fellow in The Heritage Foundation’s Center for Education Policy, testified about the bias against conservatives embedded in the program.

Along with The College Fix’s research, the subcommittee reviewed an American Enterprise Institute study from 2024 that found just six of 182 Truman Scholars between 2021 and 2023 leaned conservative.

“The Truman Foundation is receiving millions in taxpayer money, but if it promotes only one political viewpoint, it doesn’t deserve Congressional support, taxpayer funding, or its respected public image,” the subcommittee stated in a news release after the hearing.

Reached for comment Thursday, Hess and Kissel praised the bill’s proposal.

“Despite years of data suggesting that this taxpayer-funded public service fellowship has come to serve as an owned-and-operated subsidiary of the campus left, the Truman Scholarship Foundation has dismissed concerns and attacked those who raise them,” Hess told The Fix.

“It would have been best for all concerned if the Foundation had taken the concerns about ideological capture seriously and moved to address them on its own. It has not. That has made Rep. Stefanik’s proposal both necessary and inevitable,” Hess said via email.

“Whatever this measure’s fate in this Congress, here’s hoping it prompts the Foundation to finally step up and recommit to its bipartisan mission of public service,” he said.

Kissel told The Fix he supports the bill’s aims.

“The policies in this bill are just what’s needed to end the many biases in the operation of the Truman Scholarship program,” Kissel said in an email. “Rep. Stefanik should be applauded for taking this initiative.”

MORE: College Fix editor’s written testimony to Congress on Truman scholarship bias