Morning Brief: Trump Guts Education Dept, Suspected Tesla Vandals Charged As Terrorists, IRS Shakeup...

Karoline Leavitt points out the irony lost on vandals defacing Teslas around the US...

Witness to Arizona death row execution describes murderer's face in his last moments alive...

Mother admits to stabbing son, 11, to death in Los Angeles hotel room...

French Actor Gerard Depardieu Goes on Trial on Sexual Assault Charges...

Transgender Swimmer's Ex-Teammates Speak Up After Trump Admin Cuts Funding to School

The administration of President Donald Trump paused $175 million in federal funds for the University of Pennsylvania over its policy of letting men compete in women’s sports leagues.

Three former teammates of Lia Thomas, a man who claims to be a woman and who competed on the Ivy League school’s female swim team in recent years, issued a statement on Wednesday praising the move.

“We are so glad that Universities are beginning to see that there is a cost to openly harming female students on their campuses and we hope the pressure only increases,” Grace Estabrook, Margot Kaczorowski, and Ellen Holmquist told Fox News in a joint statement with the Independent Council for Women’s Sports.

“Penn and other universities within the NCAA, under NCAA policy and their own rogue leadership, have violated federal law and hurt women,” the athletes added.

Estabrook, Kaczorowski, and Holmquist made note of the harms to which female athletes are subjected when they are forced to compete against men claiming to be women.