America First Policy Institute (AFPI) issued the following statement from Greg Sindelar, Interim President and CEO, regarding the proposed $9.4 billion recissions package requiring congressional action:
For too long, Washington bureaucrats have failed the very families they claim to serve—none more so than Hispanic Americans. We’ve been told to wait our turn, to be patient, while our wages stagnated, our communities bore the brunt of illegal immigration, and our children were shortchanged by broken promises. Under the Biden-Harris Administration, inflation skyrocketed, crime soared, fentanyl deaths hit record highs, and the border became a humanitarian and national security disaster.
U.S. higher education is failing to deliver value to students. College attendance costs have ballooned due to lavish spending on absurd luxury amenities and unnecessary staffing, even controlling for inflation. Yet, the shocking indifference displayed by colleges and universities (hereafter, “colleges”) towards the price of their product is understandable, given the perverse incentives that govern higher education financing.