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A leading congressional Republican wants the Biden administration to refrain from closing any antisemitism investigations in the next week. Instead, he urges the outgoing president to leave the cases open for the Trump administration to decide.
Representative Tim Walberg, a Michigan Republican and newly elected chair of the Committee on Education and the Workforce, said in a statement Thursday that recent agreements with five University of California system campuses, Rutgers University and Johns Hopkins University were “toothless” attempts to “shield schools from real accountability.”
“The Trump administration should closely examine these agreements and explore options to impose real consequences on schools, which could include giving complainants the opportunity to appeal these weak settlements,” Walberg said.
The congressman’s statements demonstrate the growing tension between departing Democrats and incoming Republicans and show that holding colleges accountable for their response to campus antisemitism is still a priority for the committee.
“These so-called resolutions utterly fail to resolve the civil rights complaints they purport to address,” Walberg said. “The department is shamefully abandoning its obligation to protect Jewish students, faculty, and staff and undermining the incoming administration.”
