{"id":2446375,"date":"2025-06-12T10:27:59","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T14:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/every-last-one-quit-entire-board-admits-it-cant-handle-trumps-heat-votes-to-all-resign\/"},"modified":"2025-06-12T10:30:42","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T14:30:42","slug":"every-last-one-quit-entire-board-admits-it-cant-handle-trumps-heat-votes-to-all-resign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/every-last-one-quit-entire-board-admits-it-cant-handle-trumps-heat-votes-to-all-resign\/","title":{"rendered":"Every Last One Quit: Entire Board Admits It Can&#8217;t Handle Trump&#8217;s Heat, Votes to All Resign"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fevery-last-one-quit-entire-board-admits-it-cant-handle-trumps-heat-votes-to-all-resign%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2446375&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board has collectively decided to resign in response to actions taken by the trump administration concerning foreign student policies. The board expressed their concerns in a letter, citing that the administration has undermined both the integrity of the Fulbright program and U.S. national interests by implementing unauthorized reviews and overturning Fulbright award selections.They emphasized the program&#8217;s non-political nature and stated that these actions contradict the original mandate established by Congress nearly 80 years ago. The board has raised these <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nikki-haley-to-launch-2024-presidential-run\/\" title=\"Nikki Haley To Launch 2024 Presidential Run\">issues multiple times<\/a> with senior officials but has seen no resolution. Their resignation reflects a desire to protect the principles of free speech and academic freedom, wich they believe are being compromised. The letter concludes with a call for Congress and the courts to intervene to safeguard the program&#8217;s mission, although they express skepticism about the likelihood of intervention given the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/backlash-against-disney-grows-after-liberal-actor-in-show-with-gina-carano-made-similar-posts-still-has-job\/\" title=\"Backlash Against Disney Grows After Liberal Actor In Show With Gina Carano Made Similar Posts, Still Has Job\">current political climate<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>The entire Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board has resigned en masse.<\/p>\n<p>And it&rsquo;s all because of President Donald Trump and his administration&rsquo;s crackdown on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/trump-admin-goes-nuclear-harvard-foreign-students-banished-campus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >rampant foreign student issues<\/a><\/a> currently plaguing America&rsquo;s institutions of higher learning.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/frmrffsb.substack.com\/p\/fulbright-foreign-scholarship-board\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">letter<\/a> posted Wednesday, the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board announced that it had &ldquo;voted overwhelmingly&rdquo; to all quit.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Effective immediately, members of the Congressionally mandated Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board voted overwhelmingly to resign from the board, rather than endorse 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,&rdquo; the board wrote.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Under Democratic and Republican administrations alike, the Board has followed the law, operating with independence pursuant to its statutory mandate.<\/p>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tif ( getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"stnvideo\").remove() \t\t\t} else { \t\t\t\tdocument.addEventListener(\"DOMContentLoaded\", function() { \t\t\t\t\tfunction loadScript(src) { \t\t\t\t\t\tconst script=document.createElement(\"script\"); \t\t\t\t\t\tscript.src=src; \t\t\t\t\t\tscript.async=true; \t\t\t\t\t\tdocument.body.appendChild(script); 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to be used at a University of Michigan laboratory &mdash; is part of an alarming pattern that threatens our security,&rdquo; United States Attorney Jerome Gorgon Jr. said of the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Just a month earlier, the Stanford Review &mdash; a school paper &mdash; reported on its own institute of higher learning by calling out a web <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/web-chinese-spies-fully-infiltrated-prestigious-us-university-student-investigation-finds\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">of &ldquo;Chinese spies&rdquo;<\/a> that had effectively infiltrated the university.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Transnational repression, $64 million in Chinese funding, and allegations of racial profiling have contributed to a pervasive culture of silence at Stanford and beyond,&rdquo; the paper lamented.<\/p>\n<p>In lieu of such silence, it&rsquo;s clear the Trump administration is taking this matter very seriously &mdash; whether the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board likes it or not.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"ff-fancy-header-container\"> \t\t\t \t<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-submit-correction inner-content\">\n<div class=\"correction-form\">\n<form style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"sc-name-field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* Name<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"name\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc--field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* <\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<label>* Message<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t<textarea name=\"message\" required><\/textarea> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"required-message\" style=\"display: none; 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In a letter released on Wednesday, the board stated it had &#8220;overwhelmingly&#8221; decided to resign, citing concerns over actions they believe violate the law and compromise national interests. They emphasized that their independence has been maintained under both Democratic and Republican administrations for nearly 80 years. The board criticized the current administration for undermining the program by denying awards to selected candidates and subjecting others to unauthorized reviews, which they argue contradicts the Fulbright mission and values of free speech and academic freedom established by Congress. 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