Becky Pringle, the president of the largest teachers union in the U.S., recently spoke at a virtual event scheduled for Wednesday titled "Roadmap to Political Revolution," hosted by the Sunrise Movement. (Getty Images)
The NEA has been actively opposing President Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration, labeling him a "dictator" and organizing protests nationwide against ICE.
"You only have to look at their actions here recently to see that they have turned into a liberal political organization," Carter told Fox News Digital. "Calling President Trump's policies fascism, calling for allowing biological men to participate and grow sports, going against the Anti-Defamation League, which is trying to stamp out anti-Semitism. All the policies that they're enacting, 98% of their donations are going to Democrats now, and the liberal Democrats. And then, of course, what they've done in Minneapolis and in Minnesota — all of those actions lead us to believe that they should be, that their charter should be pulled."
Fox News Digital has extensively reported on criticisms of the NEA in recent months, including in November when a federal labor filing showed the organization sent millions to far-left causes. Last month, an NEA whistleblower told Fox News Digital the organization operates like a "cult" and views conservatives as the "enemy."
GOP Rep. Buddy Carter attends a House Energy and Commerce Environment Subcommittee hearing. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call via Getty Images)
Miller continued, "But instead of pushing the basics in education — so our children are literate, so that they can do math and they know our history, they understand our civics, they are educated in science, and basic education, what American parents want — they've gotten into pushing DEI, weird sexual stuff, they don't want parents involved. They're anti homeschooling. They've called for boycotts of corporations they felt weren't pushing their cause. They've gone off onto things like calling for the statehood of District of Columbia. I mean, so many things that have nothing to do with education. They lost their way and that's why I want their charter revoked."
If Miller’s legislation were to pass through Congress, she told Fox News Digital that it would "send a strong message that people and lawmakers are rising up to the NEA."
Fox News Digital reached out to the NEA for comment.
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