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The Harry S. Truman Federal Building, office of the U.S. Department of State, is pictured connected October 8, 2024 successful Washington, DC.
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The full Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board resigned implicit what it said Wednesday was meddling by the Trump medication successful the board's authorization to grant scholarships.
The 12-member board, successful a statement, said the State Department, which runs the assistance program, had denied Fulbright awards "to a important fig of individuals who were selected for the 2025-2026 world year."
"The medication is besides presently subjecting an further 1,200 overseas Fulbright recipients to an unauthorized reappraisal process and could cull more," the committee said successful its statement, which was posted connected Substack.
"We judge these actions not lone contradict the statute but are antithetical to the Fulbright ngo and the values, including escaped code and world freedom, that Congress specified successful the statute," the committee said.
Jed Katz, the seat of the board, referred CNBC to the connection erstwhile asked astir his and the different members' resignations.
CNBC has requested remark from the State Department.
The resignations were archetypal reported by The New York Times.
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