{"id":447339,"date":"2021-04-23T21:20:45","date_gmt":"2021-04-24T01:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=447339"},"modified":"2021-04-23T21:20:51","modified_gmt":"2021-04-24T01:20:51","slug":"democrats-block-cruz-amendment-that-would-ban-funding-colleges-that-discriminate-against-asians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-block-cruz-amendment-that-would-ban-funding-colleges-that-discriminate-against-asians\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats Block Cruz Amendment That Would Ban Funding Colleges That Discriminate Against Asians"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/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%2Fdemocrats-block-cruz-amendment-that-would-ban-funding-colleges-that-discriminate-against-asians%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=447339&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-3554.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Senate Democrats voted this week to block a proposed amendment from Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) that would have blocked federal taxpayer money from going to institutions of higher learning that discriminate against Asian Americans.<\/p>\n<p>The amendment stated:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"8\">\n<p><em>To prohibit Federal funding for any institution of higher education that discriminates against Asian Americans in recruitment, applicant review, or admissions.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Every Republican Senator voted for the amendment while every Democrat Senator voted against it. Only three Senators did not vote \u2014 Sens. Mike Lee (R-UT), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Tina Smith (D-MN).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"5.8965517241379\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">As an Asian American, I will just leave this here. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/s7cM9dIofV\">pic.twitter.com\/s7cM9dIofV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Aaron Ginn (@aginnt) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/aginnt\/status\/1385337420070199299?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 22, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIn an unbelievably cynical move, Senate Democrats blocked efforts to stop discrimination against Asian Americans in higher education, where racial bias has become all too common,\u201d Cruz and Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) said in a statement. \u201cThis amendment would bar funds from institutions that discriminate against Asian American students.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDespite their calls to end racism, it is clear Democrats are only paying lip service to fighting discrimination against Asian Americans and will allow targeted discrimination against them to continue at America\u2019s universities and colleges,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>The amendment was proposed as an amendment to Sen. Mazie Hirono\u2019s (D-HI) <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/04\/22\/senate-democrats-federal-funds-asians\/\">bill<\/a> that seeks to \u201cdesignate [an] officer or employee of the Department of Justice (DOJ) to facilitate the expedited review of COVID-19 hate crimes and reports of COVID-19 hate crimes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hirono\u2019s bill passed 94-1 on Thursday with Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) being the only Senator to vote against it. \u201cMy big problem with Sen Hirono\u2019s bill that Senate voted on today is that it turns the federal government into the speech police \u2013 gives government sweeping authority to decide what counts as offensive speech and then monitor it,\u201d Hawley said. \u201cRaises big free speech questions.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"9.5439739413681\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">My big problem with Sen Hirono\u2019s bill that Senate voted on today is that it turns the federal government into the speech police \u2013 gives government sweeping authority to decide what counts as offensive speech and then monitor it. Raises big free speech questions<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HawleyMO\/status\/1385398565908983808?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 23, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Democrats voted this week to block a proposed amendment from Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) that would have blocked federal taxpayer money from going to institutions of higher learning that &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2276614,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-3554.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Democrats Block Cruz Amendment That Would Ban Funding Colleges That Discriminate Against Asians","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-447339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-3554.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Democrats Block Cruz Amendment That Would Ban Funding Colleges That Discriminate Against Asians","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2276614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}