Trump Moves to Pull Schools' Tax-Exempt Status Over DEI

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : Officials frame the move as enforcing a "fundamental public policy" against discrimination, citing a 1983 Supreme Court ruling involving Bob Jones University and the 2023 Students for Fair Admissions decision that ended race-conscious admissions.
49% : The Treasury Department on Thursday proposed rules that would allow the IRS to pull tax-exempt status from any school -- from K-12 to universities -- that it deems to have racially discriminatory policies, including admissions or scholarships that explicitly favor Black or other minority students, Bloomberg Law and the New York Times report.
46% : Rule would target race-conscious admissions, aid and support programs at up to 18K schools Tax policy is emerging as the Trump administration's newest lever in the fight over race and education.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.