Washington Reporter: Rep. Tim Walberg lays out agenda as new Education and Workforce Committee chair

Rep. Tim Walberg (R., Mich.) is the new chair of the House’s Education and Workforce Committee, but the Michigan lawmaker has spent years on what he wants to ensure is an “A committee” under his watch, he told the Washington Reporter.

And, now that he’s at the helm, he wants to build off of the viral successes led by then-Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R., N.C.).

“This is not just for good TV, radio, and newsprint,” Walberg said during an interview with the Reporter at a public event sponsored by advocacy group Parents Defending Education (PDE). “It's actually to accomplish something. Chairwoman Foxx, in her efforts last term, did yeoman’s effort to achieve that to the point that three college presidents left their offices and other schools began to do significant changes.”

Walberg’s committee featured the highest-profile hearings in congressional history last Congress. The blockbuster hearings led to multiple university presidents leaving in disgrace after hundreds of millions of people tuned into clips of the leadership of Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology embarrassing themselves under oath.

When asked about how the schools are chosen for probing, Walberg said that “we go to those colleges and universities that are the highest profile and that are making the biggest problems.” Now, university presidents know that he’s in charge — and thus far, he hasn’t been caught napping. In one case, he caught a school red-handed in its attempts to hide its DEI programming.

“I've been receiving calls from college presidents, university presidents who are staying in close contact with me and saying, ‘this is what I've just done. What do you think?’ And I remember recently I texted back to the… president of a major university and said, ‘Well done. This is what we want to see.’ Then my staff walked in and handed me a press clipping about that same university just about three minutes later, that said that the DEI program was not actually abolished. I quickly copied off that press clipping and texted it back to this president I’d just given kudos to, and immediately, within less than two minutes, a text came back: ‘I didn't know about that. Will be checking into it now.’ I think that president will be, but that's what we have to keep doing.”

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