Comment on FR Doc # 2026-13248

The proposed recission of funding for the multiple Title VI & Fulbright-Hays programs is a potential national tragedy. Since the initiation of these programs by the Conress in the 1950s, those programs have built the foundation for a national security program that built foreign language and area skills to serve U.S. foreign policy, business, and security interests.It would be an immense mistake to lose the treasure of American skills and knowledge about many diverse nations for foreign policy, business, the mlitary, and educational institutions These intelligent knowlede sklls have been the envy of all the world's big powers, The skills and advantages built by the the Titlei VI and Fulbright-Hays Programs exceed those skills of all other foreign nations, including the UK, France, the Scandinavian cuntries, and even the USSR/Russia and China. These foreign language and area studies programs built for more than 60 years in more than 100 universities are a major soft-power success for the U.S.A. and built the reputation abroad of this nation as an intelligent good partner for educational and economic advancement, matched by no other nation, To lose those skills and this tradition of partnership of language and cultural knowledge of American scholars with other nations would be an astonishing and criminal decision against the interests of U.S. business, foreign policy, the military, universities, and cultural institutions.