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House Republicans Press Education Department on Colleges’ Foreign Gift Reporting Requirements

A group of House Republicans wants the U.S. Department of Education to detail how much money it has earmarked for monitoring colleges’ largest donations and contracts with foreign entities in the time since President Joe Biden took office. The lawmakers, in a letter Wednesday to Education Secretary Miguel Cardona, demanded to know what the Education Department budgeted and spent on enforcement of the federal law requiring colleges to report foreign gifts and contracts totaling $250,000 or more in a year, known as Section 117. The letter was spearheaded by Virginia Foxx, a North Carolina Republican and chair of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
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