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 subsequent chairman of the Home Schooling and Workforce Committee.
“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.
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 embrace 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.