Trump hints at ending financing for historically black colleges
Source: the hill
By Rebecca Savransky - 05/06/17 09:14 AM EDT
President Trump in a statement Friday called out a program that helps finance construction for historically black colleges, emphasizing that the future of the program is subject to his constitutional authority.
In a statement issued when the president signed the spending bill this week, the president said he would treat the Historically Black College and University Capital Financing Program Account "in a manner consistent with the requirement to afford equal protection of the laws under the Due Process Clause of the Constitution's Fifth Amendment."
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Earlier this year, dozens of representatives from the country's historically black colleges and universities came to Washington to meet with senior administration officials.
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In general, the meetings were a troubling beginning to what must be a productive relationship, Morehouse College President John Wilson Jr. said in a statement to the schools students after the meetings.
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Whow. just whow!!
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/05/trump-historically-black-colleges-financing-unconstitutional-238061
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In a signing statement on the $1.1 trillion omnibus government spending bill, Trump singled out the Historically Black College and University Capital Financing Program as an example of provisions in the funding bill that allocate benefits on the basis of race, ethnicity, and gender.
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Previous presidents, including Barack Obama and George W. Bush, often issued such statements when they signed legislation to signal they may ignore or disregard parts of laws passed by Congress.
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Trumps statement also suggests concern about programs listed under the School Improvement Programs section of the budget. Those include a wide range of education-related programs, such as after-school initiatives and programs that support Native Hawaiian and Alaska Native education.
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Smith noted that the federal designation of an institution as an HBCU is not based on race, but rather on mission, accreditation status and the year the institution was established. She speculated that the signing statement may simply be the Office of Management and Budget being overly cautious and perhaps not fully understanding this important distinction as it relates to HBCUs, but UNCF needs more information regarding their thinking and intent. ............................
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Jamil SmithVerified account @JamilSmith 12h12 hours ago
Trump signals that he'll refuse to enforce a federal financing program that helps HBCUs build on their campuses. http://politi.co/2pPu99M
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Keith BoykinVerified account @keithboykin 11h11 hours ago
Trump just said f*** you to every HBCU president who sat up in the Oval Office and smiled in his lying face. http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/05/trump-historically-black-colleges-financing-unconstitutional-238061
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Gary Legum @GaryLegum 11h11 hours ago
Man, this administration is just something else. http://politi.co/2pKJOH4
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Hinterland Gazette @hinterlandg 12h12 hours ago
Um, #HBCU presidents in WH photo op got played. Trump suggests financing program for HBCUs may be unconstitutional http://politi.co/2pKJOH4
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and actions against minorities. Despicable for a potus and his 'advisors' to be so hateful. Yet this is what white ameriKKKa and it's surrogates have always wanted....minorities back in the 'cotton' fields and the old field negroes now have 'big house' jobs. Slavery era inescapable and can't be denied by any other name and now being reinstituted by the #1 big house massa...bannon
Well many WON"T go to the field willingly, no matter how many guns and robo-cops are out there. FUCK TRUMP
This boy doesn't understand what his actions are going to create, I think. They think their guns and 'authority' will cow the civilian population into line. NYET!!!! You stupid mofo's!!!!!!!
They should have gotten the "hint" when they were thoroughly disrespected by the dumbass on the sofa in an official "photo-op" -
