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Because international students paying full freight have been subsidizing domestic student tuition for the last 20 years. If you limit international students, you collapse that tuition cashflow, so you either have to make it up somewhere else (i.e., tuition increases for domestic students), or you have to cut. Therefore, the clear goal of this compact is to force cuts, and in two specific ways:

1. Cut any programs that are not "GOP friendly" under the guise of productivity and earnings potential. In other words, the arts and humanities have to go.

2. Cut the discount rate for students - the massive discounts that allow mid- and lower-income students to attend universities at all.

This will all happen under the banner of "rightsizing," and most universities will have to do it anyway. The compact is attempting to speed up the process and tack on some other "goodies" for the Stephen Miller contingent, like anti-trans and anti-DEI commitments to go along with the financial exigency.