Trump regime

New Republic - Donald Trump wants you to believe he’s standing up for America’s working class by trying to ban foreign students from Harvard. That’s the lie.

Here’s the truth: Trump and his MAGA foot soldiers in Congress are trying to gut Pell Grants and restrict college access for the very same low-income, working-class students they claim to be helping. It’s the same old con—feed voters a xenophobic scapegoat while quietly slashing support for public education and handing billions more to the rich.

MSNBC -   The entire board that oversaw the prestigious Fulbright scholarship program under the State Department has resigned in protest of what its members say is the Trump administration’s meddling in its affairs. The alleged meddling is the latest sign of how President Donald Trump is trying to politicize and censor what should be the most uncontroversial functions of government.

The Fulbright scholarship program has long served as an uncontroversial instrument of American soft power. The Fulbright program is the federal government's premier international educational exchange program. It offers thousands of highly competitive grants every year for Americans to study, teach and conduct research all over the world, and it also offers grants for foreigners to study and research in the U.S. The bill that created it, which became law in the aftermath of World War II and was named after Sen. J. William Fulbright of Arkansas, called for proceeds from the sales of surplus war property to fund the “promotion of international good will through the exchange of students in the fields of education, culture, and science.”