House Republicans introduced a bill Tuesday to ban funding to medical schools that use diversity, equity, and inclusion ideology.
Reps. Greg Murphy and Brad Wenstrup introduced the Embracing anti-Discrimination, Unbiased Curricula, and Advancing Truth in Education, or EDUCATE, Act aiming to eliminate federal funding, including student loans, for medicalFlanked by other physician House members and medical advocates at a press conference in front of the Capitol Tuesday afternoon, Murphy and Wenstrup, both of whom are doctors, decried the harm DEI has done to the medical field.
“In the past, students were admitted based upon merit, excellence, and aptitude. Sadly enough, those days are changing,” he continued, saying DEI “theology is sowing mistrust in the field where trust is so reliant.” The bill would alter the Higher Education Act of 1965 to block federal dollars from schools that “direct, compel, or incentivize students, faculty, or staff personally state, pledge, recite, affirm, or otherwise adopt” DEI practices, including through coursework mandates.
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