Berkeley, California's university town, faces retaliation from Washington after its City Council voted last week to announce the U.S. Marines and their recruiting station is not welcome in the city, officials said Wednesday.
A move is going forward in the U.S. Congress, as six senators and one representative, all Republicans, introduced bills calling for the withdrawal of 2 million dollars of federal funds from Berkeley educational institutions.
That includes funds from UC Berkeley and a local foundation that provides lunches for Berkeley public schools, according to a press release from the Washington office of South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint, who leads the retaliation effort against Berkeley.
A spokesperson for DeMint said Wednesday that the bills would also seek to remove other earmarks, including nearly 1 million dollars for a new ferry service and funds for public safety in Berkeley.
"Berkeley needs to learn that their actions have consequences," DeMint said in the release. "Patriotic American taxpayers won't sit quietly while Berkeley insults our brave Marines and tries to run them out of town."
Source: Xinhua
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