Linda McMahon blasts Harvard in scathing letter telling elite university it will no longer get federal grants

Secretary of Education Linda McMahon sent a scathing missive to Harvard University President Alan Garber connected Monday, not lone blasting the Massachusetts Ivy League school’s handling of antisemitism connected field but besides advising schoolhouse officials to refrain from applying for aboriginal national grants due to the fact that they volition not "be provided."

In her no-holds-barred letter, McMahon told Garber that the national authorities has a "sacred responsibility" to beryllium an important steward of American payer funds, adding that the schoolhouse has amassed a mostly tax-free $53.2 cardinal endowment and receives billions of dollars successful payer funds each year.

"Receiving specified payer funds is simply a privilege, not a right," she wrote. "Yet alternatively of utilizing these funds to beforehand the acquisition of its students, Harvard is engaging successful a systemic signifier of violating national law. Where bash galore of these ‘students’ travel from, who are they, however bash they get into Harvard, oregon adjacent into our state – and wherefore is determination truthful overmuch HATE? These are questions that indispensable beryllium answered, among galore more, but the biggest question of each is, wherefore volition Harvard not springiness straightforward answers to the American public?"

She besides said the assemblage has "made a mockery" of the higher acquisition strategy successful the U.S., inviting overseas students to its campuses who prosecute successful convulsive behaviour and amusement contempt for the U.S.

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Department of Education Secretary Linda McMahon sent a scathing missive to Harvard University President Alan Garber advising him to not use for national grants due to the fact that they volition not beryllium provided. (Getty Images)

McMahon slammed the schoolhouse for adopting an "embarrassing" remedial mathematics programme for undergraduates, questioning wherefore a schoolhouse that's truthful hard to get admitted to has to thatch low-level mathematics.

She called Harvard retired for being embroiled successful plagiarism scandals and lambasted the schoolhouse for allowing Harvard University and the Harvard Law Review to prosecute successful "ugly racism."

McMahon blasted Harvard for hiring erstwhile Mayors Bill de Blasio of New York City and Lori Lightfoot of Chicago to thatch "leadership" astatine its School of Public Health.

"This is similar hiring the skipper of the Titanic to thatch navigation to aboriginal captains of the sea," she said.

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"The supra concerns are lone a fraction of the agelong database of Harvard’s accordant violations of its ain ineligible duties. Given these and different concerning allegations, this missive is to pass you that Harvard should nary longer question GRANTS from the national government, since nary volition beryllium provided," McMahon aboriginal wrote. "Harvard volition cease to beryllium a publically funded instauration and tin alternatively run arsenic a privately-funded institution, drafting connected its colossal endowment, and raising wealth from its ample basal of affluent alumni.

"You person an astir $53 cardinal caput start, overmuch of which was made imaginable by the information that you are surviving wrong the walls of, and benefiting from, the prosperity secured by the United States of America and its free-market strategy you thatch your students to despise," she added.

In closing, McMahon reminded Garber that the Trump medication had been consenting to support national backing to Harvard arsenic agelong arsenic the schoolhouse complied with national instrumentality to support and beforehand pupil payment and halt radical preferencing.

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Harvard President Alan Garber (Screenshot/NBC)

"The projected common-sense reforms – which the Administration remains committed to – see a instrumentality to merit-based admissions and hiring, an extremity to unlawful programs that beforehand crude individuality stereotypes, disciplinary betterment and accordant accountability, including for pupil groups, practice with Law Enforcement, and reporting compliance with the Department of Education, Department of Homeland Security, and different Federal Agencies," McMahon said. "The Administration's priorities person not changed, and today’s missive marks the extremity of caller grants for the university."

Harvard confirmed to Fox News Digital that it received a missive from the medication connected Monday.

"Today, we received different missive from the medication doubling down connected demands that would enforce unprecedented and improper power implicit Harvard University and would person chilling implications for higher education," a Harvard spokesperson said. "Today’s missive makes caller threats to illegally withhold backing for lifesaving probe and innovation successful retaliation against Harvard for filing its suit connected April 21.

"Harvard volition proceed to comply with the law, beforehand and promote respect for viewpoint diversity, and combat antisemitism successful our community. Harvard volition besides proceed to support against amerciable authorities overreach aimed astatine stifling probe and innovation that marque Americans safer and much secure," the spokesperson continued.

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McMahon's missive comes conscionable days aft President Donald Trump declared that his medication was going to beryllium taking distant Harvard’s tax-exempt status.

Trump made the announcement aft Fox News reported that his medication asked the Internal Revenue Service to revoke Harvard University’s tax-exempt status. The Ivy League school's nonaccomplishment to code antisemitism connected field is grounds for losing its 501(c)(3) status, sources said astatine the time.

Trump argued successful mid-April that Harvard had "lost its way" and didn't merit national funding.

"Harvard has been hiring astir each woke, Radical Left, idiots and ‘birdbrains’ who are lone susceptible of teaching FAILURE to students and alleged ‘future leaders,'" Trump wrote connected Truth Social. "Look conscionable to the caller past astatine their plagiarizing President, who truthful greatly embarrassed Harvard earlier the United States Congress."

Harvard has go a people of Trump’s broader crackdown connected universities, overmuch of which is successful effect to past year’s anti-Israel unrest that erupted connected campuses crossed the country.

On April 11, the Trump medication sent a missive to Garber and Harvard Corporation Lead Member Penny Pritzker outlining the institution’s failures and a database of demands from the White House. In the letter, the medication accused Harvard of failing to uphold civilian rights laws and to foster an "environment that produces intelligence creativity."

The Trump medication threatened to propulsion national backing if Harvard did not betterment governance and enactment arsenic good arsenic its hiring and admissions practices by August 2025. The missive emphasized the request for Harvard to alteration its planetary admissions process to debar admitting students who are "hostile" to American values oregon enactment coercion oregon antisemitism. 

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Harvard refused to comply with the demands, with Garber saying that "no government… should dictate what backstage universities tin teach, whom they tin admit and hire, and areas of survey and enquiry they tin pursue."

The Trump medication past froze $2.2 cardinal successful backing to Harvard and is reportedly looking to slash different billion, according to the Wall Street Journal.

The assemblage aboriginal filed a lawsuit against the Trump medication implicit its "unlawful" freezing of funds.

Fox News' Greg Norman, Andrea Margolis, Alexis McAdams and Rachel Wolf contributed to this report.