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Trump moves to strip tax-exempt status from schools that consider race

Trump moves to strip tax-exempt status from schools that consider race

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Schools that rebrand DEI offices and hide race-based preferences aren't fooling anyone — discrimination by any other name is still discrimination. Stripping tax-exempt status from institutions that continue these practices is the right move, since federal subsidies shouldn't prop up programs that violate constitutional equal protection principles. The IRS rule rightly preserves race-neutral criteria like income and geography, making the policy targeted, not sweeping.

Threatening 18,000 schools with loss of tax-exempt status is a blunt, overbroad instrument that could strip scholarships from roughly 750,000 students and push already-struggling institutions toward closure. The rule's vague language puts even student affinity groups at risk, chilling campus life well beyond what any court has required. Using the IRS as leverage to pressure schools into compliance before any audit even begins is intimidation dressed up as policy.

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