Justice Department to use False Claims Act to target DEI programs, campus antisemitism 

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The Justice Department will use a law typically used to punish corrupt recipients of federal funding to pressure universities to abandon diversity, equity, and inclusion programs.

President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice cited what it views as universities’ inadequate responses to campus antisemitism and “divisive” DEI policies as justification for using the False Claims Act.

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