The Dems opposition was hardly noticeable, wasn't it? The count of sexual accusations has been much more vocal. Did it have to happen exactly now?

And this issue is completely overlooked:

The Republican War on College

The House bill would reduce benefits for higher education by more than $60 billion in the coming decade. It would shock graduate students with sudden tax increases, punish student debtors, and force schools to raise tuition at a time when higher education already feels unaffordable for many students [...]

The most dramatic attack on higher education in the GOP House bill is its tax on tuition waivers. This may sound arcane to non-graduate students, but it's a huge deal. Nearly 150,000 graduate students, many of whom represent the future of scientific and academic research, don't pay tuition in exchange for teaching classes or doing other work at university. The GOP tax plan would treat their unpaid tuition as income. So imagine you are a graduate student earning $30,000 from your school for teaching, while attending a $50,000 program. Under current law, your taxable income is $30,000. Under the GOP tax plan, your taxable income is $80,000. Your tax bill could quadruple.

The destruction of graduate education in the United States

PhD students, who are effectively low-wage employees, already pay taxes on their actual stipends.  The new proposal is that they'll also have to pay taxes on a whopping, make-believe "X" on their payroll sheet that's always exactly balanced out by "-X."

[...] the proposal would raise taxes by a few thousand dollars per year, or in some cases as much as $10,000 per year (!), on PhD students who already live hand-to-mouth-to-ramen-bowl, with the largest impact falling on students in STEM fields.  For many students who aren't independently wealthy, this could push a PhD beyond the realm of affordability, and cause them to leave academia or to do their graduate work in other countries.