Rep. Tim Walberg to Chair House Education and Workforce Committee

Walberg will succeed Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.), who was term-limited as the highest Republican on the committee.

Rep. Tim Walberg (R-Mich.) has been chosen as the following chairman of the Home Schooling and Workforce Committee.

In a Dec. 12 put up on X, Walberg referred to as it “an honor” to be picked.

“We’ll empower dad and mom, encourage schooling freedom, fight antisemitism and anti-Americanism on campuses, and bridge the divide between the talents taught and abilities required within the trendy financial system. Lastly, we’ll unleash American innovation by returning to core rules: freedom, flexibility, steadiness, and alternative,” he stated.

Efficient Jan. 3, Walberg will succeed Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.), who was term-limited as the highest Republican on the committee.

Walberg will oversee a committee that can work with the incoming Trump administration on schooling and labor points.

Trump has stated he would remove the Division of Schooling, although that might require an act of Congress and due to this fact is extremely unlikely to happen given the filibuster within the Senate, which requires 60 votes to proceed with most laws.

He has additionally vowed to strip funding from “any college pushing crucial race principle, transgender madness, and different inappropriate racial, sexual or political content material on our youngsters.”

And Trump has pledged to strip funding and accreditation from faculties and universities that tolerate antisemitism on campus.

The president-elect has introduced he’ll nominate Linda McMahon to steer the Division of Schooling.

His nominee to steer the Labor Division, Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer (R-Ore.), was supported by the Worldwide Brotherhood of Teamsters, whose chief, Sean O’Brien, spoke on the Republican Nationwide Conference, although he didn’t endorse Trump. Chavez-DeRemer has come beneath fireplace from conservatives for supporting Democratic labor laws on the precise of workers to arrange.

The committee has been within the highlight this 12 months as members grilled college presidents, criticizing their response to antisemitism on campus since Hamas’s assault on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.

Throughout an April listening to, Walberg confronted then-Columbia College President Minouche Shafik over her response to antisemitism on the New York Metropolis campus. Shafik resigned in August.

Different college presidents who’ve resigned after showing earlier than the committee embody Harvard’s Claudine Homosexual, the College of Pennsylvania’s Liz Magill, and Rutgers’s Jonathan Holloway.

Walberg, who represents Michigan’s fifth Congressional District, has been in Congress since 2011 and did a stint between 2007 and 2009.