Abby Phillip: Withholding Funding for Universities, Colleges Would ‘Jeopardize’ Scientific Research

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PHILLIP: "Just one second, because I think it‘s — yeah, I mean, honestly, there‘s something called proportionality. Okay? And it‘s like, you want to just use a sledgehammer for every single problem when there are ways that they can address anti-Semitism, civil rights violations by addressing those issues. They were talking to Harvard before somebody in the Trump Administration sent a letter that wasn‘t approved, threatening them and blowing this whole thing up. So I guess the idea that there‘s only one way to deal with this, and that is to basically jeopardize all of America‘s scientific research for the next God knows how many years, decade or more, that is a completely disingenuous argument. There are other ways, Scott, that do not diminish the importance of battling anti-Semitism, but that address that issue and don‘t punish the rest of the country."