During remarks on the Senate floor, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) spoke about antisemitism on college campuses.
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00:00 Now on another matter, the past six months have shown an uncomfortably bright light on
00:09 the moral rot festering on America's university campuses.
00:15 Just yesterday, the president of Columbia hedged when asked whether chance of "from
00:21 the river to the sea" and "long live the Intifada" are properly considered anti-Semitism.
00:31 This comes after numerous incidents on her campus, including a student club president
00:37 issuing an email that read "White Jewish people today and always have been the oppressors
00:47 of all brown people."
00:51 And when I say the Holocaust wasn't special, I meant that.
00:56 Of course, the light of truth doesn't discriminate, and it's uncovered much more than an alarming
01:03 taste for the world's oldest form of hate.
01:09 Last month, a federal judge found that an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School
01:14 had committed plagiarism in a report submitted on behalf of plaintiffs in a class action
01:19 lawsuit.
01:22 And if this weren't enough, Harvard's Office of Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging
01:31 recently announced they will host racially segregated affinity celebrations during their
01:39 2024 commencement.
01:44 These are the institutions that President Biden wants working Americans to underwrite.
01:52 These are the degrees that President Biden wants taxpayers to subsidize.
01:59 Last summer, the Supreme Court ruled that the president's initial attempt at student-loan
02:03 socialism was unconstitutional.
02:07 Nevertheless, Washington Democrats continue to double down.
02:14 Early this week, the Biden administration proposed yet another nearly $150 billion round
02:23 of student loan transfers.
02:26 That's on top of more than $150 billion they've already rolled out.
02:32 At a most basic level, the proposal betrays a staggering disdain for working Americans,
02:39 both those who have paid off their debt and those who opted not to take on debt in the
02:45 first place.
02:47 It will transfer the loans of the highest-earning members of Washington Democrats' base to working
02:53 taxpayers.
02:55 And it's already driven up tuition costs for future students.
03:00 But the Biden administration has made it pretty clear that they don't care about future students.
03:07 Just look at the way they are handling the current round of FASSA applications.
03:15 Last week, the Education Department admitted that its own date and processing errors had
03:20 compromised up to 30 percent of federal financial aid applications.
03:28 Just as prospective students and their families are facing enrollment deadlines, Washington
03:37 Democrats apparently couldn't care less whether prospective students made informed decisions.
03:45 Apparently, hefty tuition costs don't matter much if taxpayers will be the ones ultimately
03:53 putting the bill.
03:56 Well, I expect that working Americans across the country will have something to say about
04:00 this in the fall.