We must protect the free speech of our college students and provide protection for open debate on college campuses by denying funding to any institute of higher learning which denies those basic rights and freedoms.
Deny federal funding to institutes of higher learning that deny basic free-speech rights and open debate.
Occurrences
Evidence
This bill prohibits an institution of higher education (IHE) that participates in federal student aid programs from requiring certain ideological oaths or similar statements and related disclosures from students, employees, contractors, or applicants.
Rep. Stutzman applauded President Donald J. Trump's efforts to close the Department of Education. The page also lists education-related press items but no current free-speech funding action in the lookback window.
The current press-release feed shows recent Stutzman activity in 2025-2026, but no item in the last 30 days evidences a new higher-education free-speech funding cutoff, vote, amendment, or letter.
Assessments
The available evidence does not show that Stutzman delivered the specific promised outcome of denying federal funding to colleges or universities that suppress free speech or open debate. The strongest cited item is a 118th Congress bill addressing ideological oaths at institutions participating in federal student aid programs, which is related to campus speech concerns, but the record provided does not establish that Stutzman sponsored, passed, or materially advanced it, nor that any enacted funding cutoff resulted from his action. Recent official House pages show education activity generally, but no documented vote, bill, amendment, executive action, or enacted policy tied to this pledge. Because the evidence is suggestive but insufficient to prove either delivery or a definitive failed attempt by Stutzman himself, the most supportable judgment is unresolved.