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 only blasting nan Massachusetts Ivy League school’s handling of antisemitism connected field but besides advising schoolhouse officials to refrain from applying for early national grants because they will not "be provided."

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

"Receiving specified payer costs is simply a privilege, not a right," she wrote. "Yet alternatively of utilizing these costs to beforehand nan acquisition of its students, Harvard is engaging successful a systemic shape of violating national law. Where do galore of these ‘students’ travel from, who are they, really do they get into Harvard, aliases moreover into our state – and why is location truthful overmuch HATE? These are questions that must beryllium answered, among galore more, but nan biggest mobility of each is, why will Harvard not springiness straightforward answers to nan American public?"

She besides said nan assemblage has "made a mockery" of nan higher acquisition strategy successful nan U.S., inviting overseas students to its campuses who prosecute successful convulsive behaviour and show contempt for nan 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 because they will not beryllium provided. (Getty Images)

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

She called Harvard retired for being embroiled successful plagiarism scandals and lambasted nan schoolhouse for allowing Harvard University and nan 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 for illustration hiring nan skipper of nan Titanic to thatch navigation to early captains of nan sea," she said.

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"The supra concerns are only a fraction of nan 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 activity GRANTS from nan national government, since nary will beryllium provided," McMahon later wrote. "Harvard will cease to beryllium a publically funded institution and tin alternatively run arsenic a privately-funded institution, drafting connected its colossal endowment, and raising money from its ample guidelines of able alumni.

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

In closing, McMahon reminded Garber that nan Trump management had been consenting to support national backing to Harvard arsenic agelong arsenic nan schoolhouse complied pinch national rule to protect and beforehand student use and extremity group preferencing.

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Harvard President Alan Garber (Screenshot/NBC)

"The projected common-sense reforms – which nan Administration remains committed to – see a return to merit-based admissions and hiring, an extremity to unlawful programs that beforehand crude personality stereotypes, disciplinary betterment and accordant accountability, including for student groups, practice pinch Law Enforcement, and reporting compliance pinch nan 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 nan extremity of caller grants for nan university."

Harvard confirmed to Fox News Digital that it received a missive from nan management connected Monday.

"Today, we received different missive from nan management doubling down connected demands that would enforce unprecedented and improper power complete 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 investigation and invention successful retaliation against Harvard for filing its suit connected April 21.

"Harvard will proceed to comply pinch nan law, beforehand and promote respect for viewpoint diversity, and combat antisemitism successful our community. Harvard will besides proceed to take sides against forbidden authorities overreach aimed astatine stifling investigation and invention that make Americans safer and much secure," nan spokesperson continued.

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President Donald Trump holds an executive bid relating to acquisition successful nan Oval Office connected April 23, 2025. (AP NEWSROOM)

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Trump management threatened to propulsion national backing if Harvard did not betterment governance and activity arsenic good arsenic its hiring and admissions practices by August 2025. The missive emphasized nan request for Harvard to alteration its world admissions process to debar admitting students who are "hostile" to American values aliases support coercion aliases antisemitism. 

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

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

The assemblage later filed a lawsuit against nan Trump management complete its "unlawful" freezing of funds.

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