The 119th Congress has once again demonstrated its commitment to safeguarding America’s national security from Beijing’s influence. The House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party announced this week that seven U.S. colleges cut ties with scholarships for Chinese nationals, reassuring the public that lawmakers have, do, and will continue to put America first in the face of our adversaries.

“By stepping up to protect their campuses from malign foreign influence, these U.S. institutions are demonstrating real leadership and a commitment to safeguarding U.S. research and innovation,” wrote Rep. John Moolenaar (R-MI), the committee chairman.

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Under Moolenaar’s leadership, Congress has not only taken major steps to curb Chinese influence in American higher education but also guaranteed that taxpayer dollars are no longer used to advance the communist regime’s agenda.

Earlier this year, Moolenaar championed two critical measures: the DETERRENT Act and the DHS Restrictions on Confucius Institutes and Chinese Entities of Concern Act. Both are designed to weaken Beijing’s foothold in the United States and block federal funding from flowing to its research initiatives.

“Taxpayer dollars should never be spent on programs which allow the CCP to steal information regarding matters of national security, like military and technology advancements, to use against us,” Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) wrote after he first introduced the bill in the Senate in 2023. He reintroduced it in 2025 after it passed the House.

With Congress now squarely focused on halting Chinese influence, new legislation to safeguard American intelligence is likely to follow soon.

Just days earlier, the House Education and Workforce Committee, led by Rep. Tim Walberg (R-MI), released a report exposing major universities for maintaining active partnerships with the Chinese Communist Party. The report may have added pressure on administrators to cut scholarship programs for Chinese nationals, particularly before the arrival of 600,000 Chinese students that President Donald Trump announced in August as part of an effort to ease tensions with Beijing.

Notably, the report also cited eight prominent universities that had already ended such programs prior to its release, underscoring that congressional investigations will persist, continuing to expose these ties, increase pressure on college administrations, and ultimately shut down dangerous partnerships.

Walberg’s report also singled out several other universities, making it evident that even if Chinese students continue to pour into the U.S., more could be done to prevent them from taking sensitive information back to China.

“We should proceed with caution when dealing with our top foreign adversary,” Rep. Mark Harris (R-NC) previously told the Washington Examiner. “Over the past year, students who hate America have been exposed on our college campuses — proving time and time again that studying in America is a privilege, not a right.”

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“We should establish guardrails to ensure America is being put first and we are not bringing individuals here who have ulterior motives,” the freshman representative added.

Since Republicans won the House majority in the 2022 midterm elections, the Chinese Communist Party has already begun to lose its grip on America’s higher education system — and that momentum will continue, helping shield the U.S. from the dangers posed by our greatest foreign adversary.