Despite the inevitable court challenges
When the President addressed CPAC yesterday, he launched into a wide-ranging speech that lasted for more than two hours. I wasn’t in the audience this year because of a scheduling conflict, but from all reports, the speech was a real stem-winder, reminiscent of some of his longer campaign rally addresses. One item, in particular, seemed to catch the crowd off-guard and drew a very positive response. Donald Trump announced that he would soon be signing an executive order that would cut federal funding to colleges and universities that don’t support free speech for all students and guests, including conservatives. (WaPo)
A new executive order from the White House will aim to make federal research funding for colleges and universities contingent on their support for “free speech,” President Trump said Saturday.
The announcement, during Trump’s address to the Conservative Political Action Conference, appeared to target complaints by some university critics that institutions of higher education stifle right-wing viewpoints.
“If they want our dollars, and we give it to them by the billions, they’ve got to allow people like Hayden and many great young people, and old people, to speak,” Trump said, bringing onstage a young conservative, Hayden Williams, who was physically attacked last month while tabling for a conservative organization at the University of California at Berkeley.
