WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 -- Sen. Alex Padilla issued the following press release:
Today, U.S. Senators Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), Chair of the Senate Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI) Caucus, Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Ben Ray Lujan (D-N.M.), Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii), and Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) led 23 of their Senate colleagues in urging the Department of Education 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-Lett...