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President Donald Trump urges passage of bipartisan Protect College Sports Act

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President Donald Trump is urging the passage of the bipartisan Protect College Sports Act. Trump spoke about the bill on Truth Social.

In the post, Trump said that college sports are a “total mess,” and it “must be fixed.” He then said that “soon most colleges won’t have sports because each and every one of them will be bankrupt.”

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“College sports are turning into pro sports, except with absolutely no rules, a result no one wants,” Donald Trump stated. “University presidents, conference commissioners, student-athletes, coaches, and athletic directors all complained to me that it has become a disaster, after years of no action, and that schools were losing hundreds and millions of dollars a year.”

Trump then discussed having a meeting with political leaders, sports executives, and student-athletes to find a bipartisan solution to fix the issue. The President then signed an executive order, “but I always said that the best solution was to get a Bipartisan Act of Congress to my desk in order to save a long and embarrassing ROAD THROUGH HELL for these solutions.”

Trump “urged the House and Senate to come together to pass a final Bipartisan Law that I can sign this summer that reflects the views and input of both chambers.” The Protect College Sports act was introduced by Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) at the end of May. 

More on the Protect College Sports Act

A big reason the Protect College Sports Act was created was to address issues with transfers and coach movement. Former Alabama football head coach Nick Saban spoke during the Protect College Sports Act hearing and said what’s going on in college sports now is not sustainable.

“I really think that the concern is the health of college athletics, not just football,” Saban said on The Paul Finebaum Show last month. “I think people look at football and basketball. But how about the 22 other sports we have that are really, probably, non-revenue sports that create lots of opportunities, actually trained 85% of our Olympians in the last Olympics? We’re the only country in the world that the university system and college athletics actually develop our athletes for the Olympics.

For the Protect Sports Act to pass, it needs 60 votes in the Senate before it advances for a similar process in the House. The bill could be debated and voted on the Senate floor before lawmakers take their month-long summer recess in August.

On3’s Nick Kosko contributed to this report.