Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) demanded answers from Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas following MRC Free Speech America’s bombshell report uncovering how the agency used taxpayer funds to censor conservatives.
MRC released a report Wednesday exposing how the DHS awarded $700,000 in anti-terrorism grant money to the University of Rhode Island’s Media Education Lab (the “Rhode Island Lab”) to promote censorship and leftist propaganda in America’s classrooms. “This is an outrageous use of federal funds and abuse of power,” Hawley rebuked in a press release detailing his letter to Mayorkas.
As MRC Free Speech America previously reported, the university wielded the grant to train educators to use censorship tools to silence right-leaning views in their classrooms. In addition, the grant was engineered to pay activists to…
