WASHINGTON, Feb. 19 -- Sen. Mazie K. Hirono issued the following press release:
Today, U.S. Senator Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI) joined HELP Ranking Member Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Senators Alex Padilla (D-CA), Dick Durbin (D-IL), Cory Booker (D-NJ), Ben Ray Lujan (D-NM), and Raphael Warnock (D-GA), and 23 of their Senate colleagues in urging the U.S. Department of Education (ED) to immediately reverse the Trump Administration's harmful decision to unilaterally halt federal funding for Minority-Serving Institutions (MSIs). In their letter (https://www.padilla.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2.18.26-OLC-Opinion-on-MSI-Termination-Letter.pdf) to Education Secretary Linda McMahon, the Senators criticized ED's flawed usage of the Department of Justice's...