President Donald Trump is the worst President in history for libraries
The nation’s top academic, the nation’s highest court, the highest court for women, and the most important institution in the country have all spoken out against the president’s new executive order, which threatens to withhold federal funding from the U.S. Department of Education.
The Trump administration has issued a new set of regulations that critics say would force colleges to close more than 1,000 institutions and limit access to federal funds, a move that has been widely criticized.
The Education Department has not responded to questions from The Associated Press on the new rules.
The Associated Press was first to report the new administration’s plan to withhold funding for more than a dozen of the nations top universities.
The AP reported that the universities would be targeted by the new restrictions.
The new executive orders are among a string of changes announced in the past month that critics have called a bid to “take back” from the Trump administration the mantle of the “Trump administration.”
“The Trump regime is a textbook case of how the Trump presidency is the greatest administration in history,” said David Yerushalmi, president of the American Association of University Professors, a group that advocates for higher education.
“It’s going to have a chilling effect on freedom of expression and academic freedom.”
The Education Secretary has yet to make a final decision on whether to approve the new regulations, and has said that they are not yet final.
The Education Department is expected to publish the new order and announce the decision next week.
The AP previously reported that some of the colleges targeted by Trump’s new restrictions include the University of California, Berkeley, the University at Buffalo, the State University of New York, Stony Brook University, University of Virginia and the University in Colorado Springs.
The administration also is seeking to shutter four private universities: Duke University, the Claremont Colleges, the George Washington University and the Washington University in St. Louis.
The order could also force a University of Colorado at Boulder to close a facility that is home to the largest collection of rare books in the world.
The department has already closed six of the seven colleges that had been awarded a contract to provide educational services to students.
The White House has said it intends to “ensure that the resources available to students are appropriately targeted, to ensure that the administration can continue to make significant investments in public education,” the AP reported.