Citing Campus Watch, Rep. Denver Riggleman (R-Va.) condemns Georgetown's Center for Contemporary Arab Studies for potential Title VI funding violations and "as the most intolerant, ideological, anti-Israel and pro-Islamist in the United States.”

Washington Examiner reported that the Department of Education has uncovered $1.3 billion in unreported foreign contributions to U.S. universities in violation of regulations. Secretary of Education Betsy Devos said, "We're going to continue to raise the flag on this, and we think, just given what we've seen scratching the surface, there's a lot there that has gone undetected." In particular, Qatar is known for demanding secrecy over its contributions and has sued in the past to avoid scrutiny.