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Newton said for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. He was obviously a radical left winger.

And no more teaching evolution …

Overhauling accreditation
In another video, Trump refers to the accreditation system as the “secret weapon” for overhauling higher ed. Accreditors basically oversee colleges and programs to ensure they meet educational standards, a form of industry self-regulation. But some conservatives claim the process is weaponized and overly burdensome.

Trump calls accreditors a failure and says he will “fire the radical left accreditors that have allowed our colleges to become dominated by Marxist maniacs and lunatics”. He will then seek new accreditors that will create standards that include “defending the American tradition and western civilization, protecting free speech, eliminating wasteful administrative positions that drive up costs incredibly, removing all Marxist diversity, equity, and inclusion bureaucrats” and more.

Last month, the Guardian published video of a meeting between the House majority leader, Steve Scalise, and the pro-Israel lobby group the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (Aipac), in which Scalise detailed plans to pull billions of dollars of federal funding from some of the most prestigious universities in the country, and to strip them of accreditation to punish them for allowing pro-Palestinian protests on their campuses.