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But this explanation is hard to take at face value. If Republicans actually cared about bloat in higher education, they might start by cleaning house in red states. Of the top seven highest-paid public university presidents, four are in Texas, and there’s no bigger example of waste than former Republican Sen. Ben Sasse’s spending $17.3 million (more than three times that of his predecessor) in one year as president of the University of Florida.