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Entire Fulbright board quits due to Trump! [1]
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Date: 2025-06-11
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Entire Fulbright board quits in mass revolt over Trump assault
In a stunning institutional revolt against Donald Trump, the entire 12-member board overseeing America's most prestigious international scholarship program resigned en masse Wednesday, blasting the administration for what they called blatantly illegal political interference.
The dramatic walkout of the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board represents an unprecedented rebuke to Trump's destruction of academic independence, with board members—including New Hampshire Democratic Senator Jeanne Shaheen—accusing Marco Rubio's State Department of trampling decades of bipartisan tradition, the Daily Beast reported.
..Board members didn't mince words in their scathing resignation statement, accusing Trump appointees of taking "unprecedented actions that we believe are impermissible under the law, compromise U.S. national interests and integrity, and undermine the mission and mandates Congress established for the Fulbright program nearly 80 years ago."
Trump's administration has already begun systematically destroying the program, canceling approximately 200 scholarships awarded to American researchers for international projects. According to sources, most cancellations were based purely on the administration's ideological objections to research topics.
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