Howard Lutnick, U.S. commerce secretary, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2025 (Bonnie Cash/UPI/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Fox News Channel's Laura Ingraham pressed Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick about the issue on Monday's episode of "The Ingraham Angle," pointedly asking him, "Mr. Secretary, with all due respect, how is allowing 600,000 students from the Communist country of China, putting America first?"
Lutnick said that Trump's view is that without 600,000 Chinese students, "you'd empty them from the top, all the students would go up to better schools, and the bottom 15% of universities" in the U.S. would go under.
Greene suggested that if schools need Chinese students in order to remain afloat, they should go out of business because they're being held up by the Chinese Communist Party.
"If refusing to allow these Chinese students to attend our schools causes 15% of them to fail then these schools should fail anyways because they are being propped up by the CCP," Greene wrote in her post on X.
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President Donald Trump during an executive order signing in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., US, on Monday, Aug. 25, 2025 (Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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Earlier this year Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a statement, "Under President Trump’s leadership, the U.S. State Department will work with the Department of Homeland Security to aggressively revoke visas for Chinese students, including those with connections to the Chinese Communist Party or studying in critical fields."
Alex Nitzberg is a writer for Fox News Digital.
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