first on fox: Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., is calling on President Biden and his administration’s Department of Education to immediately reverse grant rejections for Montana universities due to failure to meet certain conditions. Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Recruitment Standard.
In a statement provided exclusively to Fox News Digital, the senator said, “The Biden administration’s decision to strip critical funding from local schools is another example of Washington bureaucrats’ one-size-fits-all policies that don’t serve Montana. Understand.”
“I am calling on the Biden administration and the Department of Education to immediately reverse this decision, because Montana students are more important than DC recruiting practices.”
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Tester, right, called on Biden’s education secretary, Miguel Cardona, left, to reverse grant rejections for Montana university systems. (Reuters)
Examiner, who is struggling for his political career a competitive re-election match The traditionally Republican state first expressed its concern about grant rejections due to insufficiently diverse hiring practices in a letter to Education Secretary Miguel Cardona last month.
He wrote, “I am deeply troubled by indications that the Department rejected Montana’s application based primarily on an unfair scoring decision related to subjective diversity hiring requirements, without recognizing the work already being done on this front.” I failed.”
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The senator’s office revealed that 25 years after receiving the Initial Awareness and Preparation for Undergraduate Programs (GEAR UP) grant, Biden’s DOE rejected Federal funding of Montana university systems because Montana reportedly did not include sufficient details about its hiring practices for “a diverse group of individuals”.
According to the examiner, the denial was “embarrassing” for the DOE.
The DOE told Fox News Digital it has received the letter and is in the process of reviewing it. The examiner’s office confirmed that it has yet to receive any response despite being contacted on September 9.
The sharp criticism of the Biden administration’s implementation of the DEI standards puts them at odds with their party, which has generally been supportive of the initiative. On the other hand, Republicans have criticized continued efforts to prioritize diversity over merit in hiring.
In less than a month, the Montana Democrat will face off against Republican nominee Tim Sheehy, a former Navy SEAL, in one of the most competitive races in the country. Recently, several political odds have indicated that Sheehy would have an advantage in the election.
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A spokesperson for Sheehy’s campaign criticized Tester’s stance against the Biden administration on DEI, telling Fox News Digital, “Jon Tester liked the woke agenda of the radical left when he called for excluding white farmers from receiving aid simply because “Voted for Biden because they were white, supported AOC’s Green New Deal moving forward, and blamed Biden’s border crisis on climate change.”
“After voting 95% with Biden and Harris, the two-faced tester is doing the two-step right before the election because he is a desperate career politician who is doing everything possible to save his political career which has Made him rich in Washington.”
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The Examiner has not endorsed Harris. (Brandon Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images)
Tester voted for Biden 90% of the time in the last Congress, according to five thirty eightIn the first half of the 118th Congress, they voted About 95% with the President.
The three-term senator has stopped short of explicitly endorsing Vice President Harris in the presidential election and has repeatedly told reporters he is focused on Montana and his race.
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However, critics have balked at this, pointing to reports that the senator was responsible for recruiting Harris to run for the Senate in 2015, when she served as chair of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.
Examiner’s campaign did not provide comment to Fox News Digital in time for publication.
