Sen. JD Vance wants to penalize schools that don't clear out encampments. (Nathan Howard/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
The Ohio senator's bill will come as police have either arrested or detained over 2,200 people during demonstrations at about 49 college campuses in 26 states between April 18 and May 3.
Per the bill, schools that do not clear encampments within a week would not be eligible for financial assistance under the Higher Education Act of 1965, which authorized numerous programs to support post-secondary education and provide student aid programs to assist with the cost of school for applicants.
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Schools have taken a lax approach to dealing with demonstrators, even negotiating with them. (Yuki Iwamura/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
The bill would also force ineligible schools to then provide grant-based aid to continuously enrolled students to make up for the federal aid they would have received otherwise. If it fails to do so, "it must pay a tax equal to 50 percent of its endowment’s assets," according to the bill.
Ineligibility would last for five years from when the Education Department determined it to be so.
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Education Secretary Miguel Cardona condemned antisemitism on campuses. (Getty Images)
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Republicans have been significant critics of both the anti-Israel demonstrations and encampments, as well as the handling of the protests by both the universities and the Biden administration.
While both President Biden and Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona have denounced antisemitism in the demonstrations and protests that have escalated into property damage and violence, they have not signaled support for Republican requests, including that those students be prosecuted or deported.
Julia Johnson is a politics writer for Fox News Digital and Fox Business, leading coverage of the U.S. Senate. She was previously a politics reporter at the Washington Examiner.
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