Yesterday, I wrote a pithy post on Substack about why Chuck Schumer had to cry uncle on the Republicans’ continuing resolution. He caved ‘cuz money. No, not money in the CR. Spending is spending to Dems, the more, the merrier. Schumer and company are worried about campaign money the Democrat party would never see. The shutdown would put a pin in every non-essential government worker.
DOGE and Trump would have a list of people they could let go who were not essential to core government functions and the excuse that the shutdown proved they were not crucial to operations.
Buh-Bye.
Ignore the left’s political theater. Hundreds of thousands of unemployed Democrats are not going to give what they don’t have to support a party that is in crisis – especially after what they let Biden do to the economy. Just as with USAID and the DOGE audits, money is what motivates them, and threats to its free flow into their hands and those who aid and abet them is an existential crisis.
Columbia University has one of those as well. Despite its massive multi-billion dollar endowment, it relies on millions from the Federal government (400 million, by some accounts), which Mr. Trump has blocked because Columbia is a woke dumpster fire that tolerates DEI, CRT, and discrimination, including against Jews.
Principled Columbia? Not so much? It wants that money.
“Today, the Columbia University Judicial Board determined findings and issued sanctions to students ranging from multi-year suspensions, temporary degree revocations, and expulsions related to the occupation of Hamilton Hall last spring,” the university’s announcement reads. “With respect to other events taking place last spring, the UJB’s determinations recognized previously imposed disciplinary action. The return of suspended students will be overseen by Columbia’s University Life Office. Columbia is committed to enforcing the University’s Rules and Policies and improving our disciplinary processes.”
Don’t expect the pearl-clutching media Proglodytes to whine about free speech rights the way they did when the Trump administration seized, detained, and announced the deportation of Mahmoud Khalil—lost their tiny minds they did. What about his right to free speech?
Secretary of State Marco Rubio did a fabulous job taking that apart here.
What about the right to free speech for all those students who just had their degrees stripped or got suspended or expelled?
Crickets. And it’s not just Columbia.
The Department of Education on Tuesday sent letters to 60 institutions warning them that noncompliance with civil rights laws would lead to similar enforcement action being taken against them. All 60 universities currently have open investigations or complaints filed against them relating to antisemitic incidents.
It’s a hardship. They’ll have to pause looking for ways to hide their DEI antics (to avoid losing federal money) to address the threat to funding because they allow on-campus domestic terror against Jewish students and anyone who stands with them. What that looks like on other campuses is unclear, but this is serious.
And neither Trump’s Department of Education nor its DOJ will take them at their word.
