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From Fox News: Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., is calling on President Biden and his administration’s Department of Education to promptly reverse a grant rejection for Montana universities because of a failure to meet certain diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) hiring standards.
In a statement exclusively to Fox News Digital, the senator said, “The Biden Administration’s decision to strip critical funding from local schools is just another example of one-size-fits-all policies from Washington bureaucrats who don’t understand Montana.”
“I’m calling on the Biden Administration and the Department of Education to immediately reverse this decision, because Montana’s students are more important than [made-up] D.C. hiring practices.”
Tester, who is fighting for his political life in a competitive re-election match in a traditionally Republican state, first voiced his concerns about the grant rejection due to insufficiently diverse hiring practices in a letter to Education Secretary Miguel Cardona last month.
“I am deeply troubled by indications that the Department rejected Montana’s application based primarily on an unfair scoring decision related to subjective diversity hiring requirements that failed to recognize the work already being done on this front,” he wrote.
In his Sept. 9 letter to Cardona, Tester wrote, “This rejection of Montana’s GEAR UP application clearly demonstrates that unelected bureaucrats in Washington D.C. simply do not understand rural states like Montana and would rather push their own ill-advised agendas on hiring practices than actually help the students that would benefit from this funding… I request your immediate reconsideration of this matter and look forward to your response.”
Last month, Tester’s Republican challenger, Tim Sheehy, pointed out that Tester had voted to allow biological men to compete in girls’ sports.
Two-Faced @JonTester voted to allow men to compete in girls’ sports. That’s not common sense and it’s wrong for Montana.
Oh, and Tester’s liberal dark money allies were caught trying to buy votes by bribing Montana women student-athletes with cash for endorsements. #RetireTester pic.twitter.com/AdjsShnFv0
— Tim Sheehy (@SheehyforMT) September 19, 2024
Vulnerable Dem Jon Tester turns on Biden admin over DEI after Montana universities stripped of federal funds https://t.co/axaYH9Bx4E
— Fox News Politics (@foxnewspolitics) October 8, 2024
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