Fulbright board resigns citing Trump interference

WASHINGTON — All members of the board that oversees the US State Department's Fulbright Program, which facilitates international educational exchanges, have voted to resign over alleged political interference from President Donald Trump's administration, the board said on Wednesday.

The Trump administration had unlawfully "usurped the authority "of the board by denying awards to a "substantial number" of people who had already been selected for the 2025-26 academic year through a yearlong, merit-based process, the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board said in a statement posted on the website Substack.

The department is also putting another 1,200 Fulbright recipients through an "unauthorized review process" that could lead to more rejections, the statement said.