Congresswoman Tenney Votes to Protect Americans from Biden’s Unconstitutional Loan Scheme and Deter Foreign Influences on College Campuses

Washington, DC– Congresswoman Claudia Tenney (NY-24) voted in favor of two pieces of legislation this week, working to enhance transparency from colleges and universities when receiving foreign funds as well as overturning President Biden’s student debt “cancellation” scam. 

Tenney voted in favor of H.R. 5933, the Defending Education Transparency and Ending Rogue Regimes Engaging in Nefarious Transactions Act or the DETERRENT Act. This bill would increase accountability and clarity in the reporting requirements for colleges and universities by cutting the foreign gift reporting threshold for colleges and universities from $250,000 to $50,000 for most foreign gifts and eliminating the threshold if the gift is from a country of concern, like China or Iran. This bill also would address reporting loopholes and require additional disclosures of foreign gifts and contracts at research-heavy institutions. This bill passed the House by a vote of 246–170.

Tenney also supported H.J. Res. 88, a Congressional Review Act resolution that would overturn the Biden administration's new student loan scheme, which experts estimate will cost as much as $559 billion. This new rule came after the previous iteration was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court and is just a desperate attempt by the Biden administration to circumvent the Constitution. Tenney was an original cosponsor of the resolution, which passed the House by a vote of 210-189. 

“87% of Americans do not have any federal student loan debt, but thanks to President Biden’s student debt “cancellation,” scam, they will be stuck footing the bill,” said Congresswoman Tenney. “Yet for the Americans who do attend college, they are now vulnerable to malicious anti-American propaganda being paid for by foreign entities who dump billions of dollars into our universities and colleges. This week, Congress passed two bills, one to reaffirm Congress’s power of the purse, protecting non-collegegoers from shouldering the loans of those who chose to attend college. The second is the DETERRENT Act, which aims to enhance transparency, safeguard academic integrity, and defend students against malignant foreign influence schemes in our education system.”

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