Rep. Brad Wenstrup, R-Ohio, leaves a meeting of the House Republican Conference at the Capitol Hill Club on Wednesday, July 26, 2023. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
Both Republican sponsors are doctors, with Murphy having practiced as a podiatrist for 26 years and Wenstrup still seeing patients as a urologist in North Carolina, according to their official bios.
The bill would amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to prohibit graduate medical schools from receiving federal financial assistance if they "direct, compel, or incentivize students, faculty, or staff personally state, pledge, recite, affirm, or otherwise adopt" any of the tenets of DEI or mandate classes or programs instructing those DEI principles.
Those tenets include "that any sex, race, ethnicity, religion, color, or national origin makes an individual a member of oppressed or oppressor categories," "that individuals should be adversely treated on the basis of their sex, race, ethnicity, religion, color, or national origin," and "that individuals, by virtue of sex, race, ethnicity, religion, color, or national origin, are inherently responsible for actions committed in the past by other members of the same sex, race, ethnicity, religion, color, or national origin" or should bear a "collective guilt."
The bill states that medical schools would be disqualified from receiving federal dollars if they teach "that America is systemically, structurally, or institutionally racist, or that racism is weaved into the ‘ordinary business of society’, or that America is an oppressive nation."
CriticalRace.org, which monitors critical race theory curricula and training in higher education, runs an online database listing medical schools with DEI practices. (Fox News Digital)
The watchdog group CriticalRace.org, which monitors critical race theory (CRT) curricula and training in higher education, operates an online Medical School Database to include all 155 accredited U.S. medical schools. Its findings show at least 70% provide mandatory or voluntary CRT-related coursework or training for students.
Lemon claimed any suggestion that DEI policies were causing patients to die was purely "speculative." He argued that research showed "the exact opposite" in terms of how minorities are treated in the medical system in the United States.
"Most doctors now are White, and there are lots of mistakes in medicine," he continued.
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In the viral clip, Lemon and Musk continued to bicker over the issue, with Lemon claiming Musk was putting forward an unlikely "hypothetical."
"If we lower standards, people will die," Musk insisted.
Fox News' Gabriel Hays, Kristine Parks and Brian Flood contributed to this report.
Danielle Wallace is a reporter for Fox News Digital covering politics, crime, police and more. Story tips can be sent to danielle.wallace@fox.com and on Twitter: @danimwallace.
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