Harvard University is facing demands from key House Republicans to explain allegations it trained members of a Chinese paramilitary group and worked with Iran-linked researchers.
In a letter sent this week, Reps. John Moolenaar, R-Mich., chairman of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party; Tim Walberg, R-Mich., chairman of the Education and the Workforce Committee; and Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., requested internal documents and communications from Harvard officials detailing the university’s partnerships with foreign adversaries.
The lawmakers raised alarm over Harvard’s repeated hosting and training of members of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC) — a paramilitary organization sanctioned by the U.S. government for its role in the Chinese Communist Party’s genocide against Uyghur Muslims.
According to the letter, Harvard allegedly used Department of Defense funding to partner with Chinese universities on research with potential military applications.
Between 2020 and 2024, Harvard researchers also collaborated on at least four projects funded by an agent of the Iranian regime, raising concerns about violations of U.S. sanctions laws.
Harvard’s China Health Partnership reportedly hosted healthcare policy training sessions that included XPCC officials, a fact highlighted by Chinese government outlets.
"We are deeply concerned the services and resources provided through these events may violate U.S. law and could have been deployed by XPCC to further repress the Uyghur people and other ethnic minorities in China," the lawmakers wrote.
Harvard replied to a request for comment: "We can confirm receipt and will respond to the Chairs’ letter."
The letter points to several specific research collaborations: In one case, Harvard researchers received DARPA funding to work with Tsinghua University faculty on zero-indexed materials — technology that could advance artificial intelligence systems.
In another, a Harvard researcher partnered with a Zhejiang University professor on polymer science research funded by the U.S. Air Force, which could be applied to aircraft construction.
A third project involved shape memory alloys, materials with aerospace applications, researched alongside faculty from Huazhong University, also under Air Force funding.
"Harvard researchers should not be contributing to the military capabilities of a potential adversary," the letter stated.
The lawmakers also noted that Harvard researchers have routinely worked with Chinese military-linked institutions on dual-use technologies, including microelectronics, AI, and quantum science.
Additionally, the lawmakers raised concerns over Harvard’s organ transplant research involving China-based collaborators, citing growing international scrutiny of China’s forced organ harvesting practices.
"Harvard trained members of a sanctioned Chinese paramilitary group responsible for genocide, and its researchers partnered with Chinese military universities on DoD-funded research and worked with researchers funded by the Iranian regime," said Moolenaar.
"These are not isolated incidents — they represent a disturbing pattern that puts U.S. national security at risk. The Select Committee’s investigation will deliver answers, expose the truth, and hold Harvard accountable to the American people.
Education Secretary Linda McMahon questioned Harvard University President Alan Garber’s decision to take a 25% pay cut, saying she's not sure how that shows the university is changing policies on antisemitism or racial discrimination.
A Harvard University spokesperson told Fox News Wednesday Garber agreed to take a 25% reduction in pay for the 2025-26 school year after the Trump administration cut $2.2 billion in funding to the university.
McMahon was a guest on FOX Business’ "The Evening Edit" Thursday, and she opened up about the situation at the elite Ivy League institution and Garber’s reduction in pay.
"I'm not quite sure today with the president of Harvard, President Garber, taking a salary decrease is somehow a statement that they're changing their policies on antisemitism or racial discrimination. I don’t think that does a whole lot to solve the problem," McMahon told host Elizabeth MacDonald.
"And if you just look at some of the stats, I mean, the Harvard Crimson even reported that ... in their own research over the last couple of years, 2% to 3% of the faculty are conservative. And you just can't have that kind of discrepancy without having the theology or ideology be biased across campus."
Harvard on Tuesday filed an update to its lawsuit against the Trump administration after another $450 million of research funding was cut.
The Massachusetts school amended the lawsuit hours after the federal government’s Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism announced that eight federal agencies were terminating approximately $450 million in grants over what is described as Harvard’s "radical" and "dark problem" on campus.
"Harvard University has repeatedly failed to confront the pervasive race discrimination and antisemitic harassment plaguing its campus," the task force said in a statement.
The latest freeze comes in addition to $2.2 billion in funding already withheld and threats by the Trump administration to revoke Harvard's tax-exempt status.
Harvard filed its initial lawsuit in April to block $2.2 billion in funding from being denied.
In its amended lawsuit, Harvard said much of the funding that was initially frozen has now been terminated, apparently with no hope of restoring it.
McMahon told MacDonald she did not think Harvard has changed its practices, adding the Trump administration has gone to the university to investigate.
"We wanted to sit down with President Garber. I spoke with him," McMahon said. "We were going to sit down and discuss things, and we had sent a letter … and asked him to come to the table. And his answer was a lawsuit that Harvard filed."
Since then, she said, there has been other communication with Garber, noting the Trump administration was doing some of the things without taking away the lawsuit.
But she added she is willing to discuss with Harvard officials what the university is doing differently.
McMahon acknowledged Harvard has tried to make changes, including asking the chair of the school’s Middle East Studies department to step down.
She made it clear, though, that the Trump administration is not taking anything off the table.
"It is clear antisemitism on campus is a civil rights violation, and Harvard has argued, as other elite universities have, that … maybe their First Amendment rights are being abridged," McMahon said. "This is not about the First Amendment. This is civil rights.
"When you put other students at risk, their safety is of concern," she added. "And their Jewish students will tell us that they’re even afraid to go to activities on campus. That’s clearly civil rights violations. Yes, that does bear investigation, and we’re not taking anything off the table."
Harvard has become a target of Trump’s broader crackdown on universities, much of which is in response to last year’s anti-Israel unrest that erupted on campuses across the country.
On April 11, the Trump administration sent a letter to Garber and Harvard Corporation Lead Member Penny Pritzker outlining the institution’s failures and a list of demands from the White House. In the letter, the administration accused Harvard of failing to uphold civil rights laws and to foster an "environment that produces intellectual creativity."
The Trump administration threatened to pull federal funding if Harvard did not reform governance and leadership and its hiring and admissions practices by August 2025. The letter emphasized the need for Harvard to change its international admissions process to avoid admitting students who are "hostile" to American values or support terrorism or antisemitism.
Harvard refused to comply with the demands, and Garber said "no government … should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and areas of study and inquiry they can pursue."
The Trump administration then froze $2.2 billion in funding to Harvard and is reportedly looking to slash another billion, according to The Wall Street Journal.
The university later filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration over its "unlawful" freezing of funds.
Fox News Digital's Greg Norman, Andrea Margolis, Stephen Sorace and Bonny Chu contributed to this report.
Harvard University on Tuesday filed an update to its lawsuit against the Trump administration after another $450 million of research funding was cut.
The Ivy League school amended the lawsuit hours after the federal government’s Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism announced that eight federal agencies were terminating approximately $450 million in grants over what is described as Harvard’s "radical" and "dark problem" on campus.
"Harvard University has repeatedly failed to confront the pervasive race discrimination and anti-Semitic harassment plaguing its campus," the task force said in a statement.
The latest freeze comes in addition to the already frozen $2.2 billion in funding to the university and threats by the Trump administration to revoke its tax-exempt status.
Harvard filed the initial lawsuit in April to block the initial $2.2 billion freeze.
In its amended lawsuit, Harvard said much of the funding that was initially frozen has now been terminated, apparently with no hope of restoring it.
A May 6 letter from the National Institute of Health notified Harvard that grants were being cut over allegations of campus antisemitism. It said grants are typically suspended pending an opportunity to take corrective action, but "no corrective action is possible here," according to the lawsuit.
Harvard later received similar letters from the Defense Department, Department of Energy, Department of Agriculture and other agencies, according to the suit. It's seeking to have those cuts overturned.
As the school faces funding challenges from the Trump administration, Harvard University President Alan Garber has agreed to voluntarily take a 25% reduction in pay for the 2025-26 school year. Other leaders at the institution are also making their own voluntary contributions, a Harvard University spokesperson told Fox News on Wednesday.
Fox News Digital’s Greg Wehner and Fox News’ Kitty Le Claire, along with The Associated Press, contributed to this report.
Harvard University President Alan Garber has agreed to voluntarily take a 25% reduction in pay for the 2025-26 school year, amid funding cuts imposed by the Trump administration, amounting to about $2.2 billion.
A Harvard University spokesperson told Fox News about the pay cut, adding that other leaders across the institution are making their own voluntary contributions, given the significant challenges the school faces.
The university announced a hiring pause in March, also asking "schools and administrative units to scrutinize discretionary and non-salary spending, reassess the scope and timing of capital renewal projects, and conduct a rigorous review of any new multi-year commitments," the spokesperson noted.
Additionally, schools within the central administration at Harvard announced there would be no merit pay increases for faculty and staff for fiscal year 2026, which runs from July 1, 2025, through June 30, 2026. The school also paused non-essential capital projects and spending.
This is not the first time Garber has taken a voluntary pay reduction. In April 2020, then-Provost Garber took a voluntary 25% pay cut as the school faced financial challenges caused by the pandemic.
The Harvard Crimson reported that past presidents have made up to $1 million annually.
Harvard has become a target of Trump’s broader crackdown on universities, much of which is in response to last year’s anti-Israel unrest that erupted on campuses across the country.
On April 11, the Trump administration sent a letter to Garber and Harvard Corporation Lead Member Penny Pritzker outlining the institution’s failures and a list of demands from the White House. In the letter, the administration accused Harvard of failing to uphold civil rights laws and to foster an "environment that produces intellectual creativity."
The Trump administration threatened to pull federal funding if Harvard did not reform governance and leadership as well as its hiring and admissions practices by August of this year. The letter emphasized the need for Harvard to change its international admissions process to avoid admitting students who are "hostile" to American values or support terrorism or antisemitism.
Harvard refused to comply with the demands, with Garber saying that "no government… should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and areas of study and inquiry they can pursue."
The Trump administration then froze $2.2 billion in funding to Harvard and is reportedly looking to slash another billion, according to The Wall Street Journal.
The university later filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration over its "unlawful" freezing of funds.
Fox News Digital's Greg Norman and Andrea Margolis contributed to this report.
Harvard University President Alan Garber on Monday sent a letter to Education Secretary Linda McMahon criticizing the Trump administration's actions against the school while noting both groups share "common ground" on a number of issues.
"We share common ground on a number of critical issues, including the importance of ending antisemitism and other bigotry on campus," Garber said. "Like you, I believe that Harvard must foster an academic environment that encourages freedom of thought and expression, and that we should embrace a multiplicity of viewpoints rather than focusing our attention on narrow orthodoxies."
However, Harvard's goals are undermined and threatened "by the federal government’s overreach into the constitutional freedoms of private universities and its continuing disregard of Harvard’s compliance with the law," Garber said.
"Consistent with the law and with our own values, we continue to pursue needed reforms, doing so in consultation with our stakeholders and always in compliance with the law," he wrote. "But Harvard will not surrender its core, legally-protected principles out of fear of unfounded retaliation by the federal government."
Garber's remarks are in response to a scathing letter last week from McMahon telling the university that it will no longer be eligible for federal grants over its handling of antisemitism on campus.
"Receiving such taxpayer funds is a privilege, not a right," she wrote. "Yet instead of using these funds to advance the education of its students, Harvard is engaging in a systemic pattern of violating federal law. Where do many of these ‘students’ come from, who are they, how do they get into Harvard, or even into our country – and why is there so much HATE?"
"These are questions that must be answered, among many more, but the biggest question of all is, why will Harvard not give straightforward answers to the American public?" she added.
The Trump administration has frozen $2.2 billion in funding to the university and threatened to revoke its tax-exempt status.
In his letter, Garber listed some of the actions Harvard has taken to address issues on campus, including installing new deans and clarifying the school's discipline structures and procedures. He noted that Harvard, like many universities, has work to do to foster intellectual diversity on campus.
Garber also pushed back on McMahon's claims that Harvard is a "partisan" institution.
"I must refute your claim that Harvard is a partisan institution. It is neither Republican nor Democratic," he wrote. "It is not an arm of any other political party or movement. Nor will it ever be. Harvard is a place to bring people of all backgrounds together to learn in an inclusive environment where ideas flourish regardless of whether they are deemed 'conservative,' ‘liberal,’ or something else, a place where assumptions and claims are tested and challenged, respectfully and thoughtfully, in pursuit of knowledge and truth."
Donna Kelce had some advice for high school kids who are deciding where to go to college.
Kelce, mother to Jason and Travis Kelce, who both went to the University of Cincinnati, said kids should go to college far away from their hometown.
"I think people should go as far away as they possibly can, that’s my viewpoint. I think that you grow more when you are away from people that are with you all the time," Donna said during a recent appearance on "New Heights."
"I think that if you are going to do the same thing and go to a college and have the same friends around you, you are never going to have any growth. You are never going to be able to be on your own and try to figure things out on your own. You are always going to have somebody there besides you to help you through all those decisions."
"But when you go to college you are totally, usually, totally on your own. And you do not have anyone there, you just kind of fail and then you win, you know what I mean. Sometimes you have little setbacks, there is adversity, you have to work through it."
Kelce said those who decide not to go to college should also move far from home.
"That’s why I don’t think it’s a good idea for being at home when you are going to college or being close."
Travis Kelce said the college selection process should be a selfish one, and not a choice you make for others.
"College is a decision you have to make for yourself. It is a selfish decision that you have to make for the future of whatever career or lane that you want to take in life," Travis said.
"Nobody should go to a school to follow somebody else other than how I went to Cincinnati to go there because of Jason. I don’t think anybody should go to college to follow somebody else. I think they should go there for the values that they see are going to be best fitting for them."
Jason Kelce echoed Travis’ sentiment about the college selection process being about the student, and no one else.
"You go to college to learn and get a degree, you don’t go to college so you can be with other people. Like that’s not why you go to college. If you want to do that just don’t go to college and live wherever that person’s (living), that’s not the reason you choose to go to college."
Jason and Travis did not take their mother's advice, as they grew up in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, and went to college in Cincinnati. While they remained in Ohio, Cleveland Heights and Cincinnati are at opposite ends of the state, a four-hour drive away from each other.
Republican New York Rep. Elise Stefanik grilled the president of Pennsylvania’s Haverford College during a congressional hearing Wednesday over disciplinary action on campus-related antisemitism since Hamas’ deadly attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.
Haverford College President Wendy Raymond tried to sidestep Stefanik’s question of whether there had been any disciplinary action taken against a student group that was accused of antisemitism at the college. Raymond said the group’s statements were "repugnant" and indefensible, though did not elaborate on potential discipline.
"I'm asking about the disciplinary action," Stefanik repeated. "You were the one university president who failed to lay out if any disciplinary action has been taken, if any suspensions or expulsion. So I am asking you, was there any disciplinary action taken?"
Raymond again denounced the group’s statements, but said she would not speak to individual cases. When pressed on whether the college took "any" disciplinary measures related to antisemitism, Raymond began to sidestep again before answering, "Yes, there have been some."
Stefanik then asked about a mathematics professor at the college who allegedly made an antisemitic post online and whether the college launched an investigation or took any disciplinary action against the educator.
"Respectfully, representative, I will not be talking about individual cases," Raymond responded.
"Respectfully, President of Haverford, many people have sat in this position who are no longer in the positions as president of universities for their failure to answer straightforward questions," Stefanik said.
Stefanik was referencing her grilling of Ivy League college administrators from the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard, her alma mater, in December 2023 regarding whether "calling for the genocide of Jews" violates the respective school’s codes of conduct. The school leaders, however, waffled in their responses.
"It can be, depending on the context," Harvard’s then-President Claudine Gay responded to the question.
"Antisemitic speech when it crosses into conduct that amounts to bullying, harassment, intimidation – that is actionable conduct, and we do take action," Gay said when pressed to answer "yes" or "no" if calls for the genocide of Jews break school rules.
Both Gay and Penn’s then-President Liz Magill resigned from their high-profile positions shortly after the hearing, while footage of the exchanges spread like wildfire on social media.
Fox News Digital’s Emma Colton contributed to this report.
The month of May kicks off the start of the U.S. summer travel season – and nowhere is that felt more acutely than on college campuses, where students are closing laptops, submitting finals and streaming off campus in droves.
However, some may not get past the airport, thanks to a federal ID rule taking effect just as school's out.
The Department of Homeland Security set the May 7 enforcement date for REAL ID last year, but the law itself has been delayed for nearly two decades. Congress passed it in 2005 – before most current college freshmen were even born. With the deadline landing right after spring semester ends, there is real concern that students heading home could be confused or caught flat-footed by the new requirements.
"We have tens of thousands of folks weekly that are showing up at our driver’s license centers to get the REAL ID," Pennsylvania Transportation Secretary Michael Carroll said at a press conference this week. "It’s a real challenge for us right now, because folks have waited until the last minute."
On campuses, the buzz in the air is almost palpable as first-year students clamor to share their summer plans, either to far-flung destinations or to visit friends and family. For many, their "plans" include simply packing a carry-on, grabbing friends and escaping as soon as possible to a beach for sun-drenched surf and relaxation. However, for some travelers lacking a REAL ID – or confused about what the law means for them – this update could pose some very real, very unexpected barriers to summer travel.
Some students were prepared. Riley Davis, a junior at the University of Alabama, said she obtained a REAL ID-compliant license earlier this year.
"I first heard about Real ID on social media last year, and got the star added when I renewed my license this year," Davis told Fox News Digital. She praised her state's process as "super fast" and easy, noting that she was also able to register for the appointment online at her local DMV – an option available in some states.
Most college freshmen just wrapped up two intense semesters, adjusting to academic pressures, building new friendships and navigating the quirks of dorm life – all while living away from home for the first time. Many also turned 18 just before or during their first year, meaning they may have only recently become eligible for a REAL ID, which is issued to U.S. residents 18 and older.
It is unclear how many college-aged Americans are currently in compliance with REAL ID requirements. Current estimates are limited and vary from state to state. New Jersey's REAL ID compliance is the lowest in the country at 17% last month, according to data compiled by CBS News. Pennsylvania and New York reported compliance rates of just 26% and 43%, respectively.
College students have cited confusion in recent conversations with friends and family about the new IDs and enforcement, as well as whether other documents, such as a passport, would be sufficient.
For anyone who is not prepared to meet REAL ID requirements, either because of when they turned 18 or due to confusion over the law's enforcement date, they could face long lines and significant wait times before they are cleared to fly domestically, if they can secure an appointment at all.
Officials in New Jersey, for example, said they post "thousands" of new slots a day for residents to obtain REAL ID licenses, slots that have booked up almost immediately, due to the backlog of residents waiting to apply.
Alabama also warned that its appointments are filling up fast, especially in larger cities, and may not be available online due to the last-minute crush. "If appointments are booked in your area, please check other nearby examining offices," Alabama state officials said last month.
Other states are also dealing with an eleventh-hour surge in visitors clamoring to obtain a REAL ID before they travel.
Brilyn Hollyhand, an 18-year-old college student and political commentator who met just days earlier with President Donald Trump, told Fox News Digital this week that his issue is not with REAL IDs, but the way they will be used, or not used, for that matter.
"I think it’s insane and stupid that we require an ID to fly domestically, but not to vote," Hollyhand said of the new requirements, which also apply to domestic flights.
"It’s simple," he added. "If you need an ID to fly and visit your grandmother out of state, you need it to cast your ballot to decide the future of our nation."
Many young travelers mistakenly believe their current IDs will still work – even if they lack the star in the top right corner that indicates REAL ID compliance. Others do not realize that a valid passport can also be used for air travel under the new rules, adding to the confusion.
Garrett McDonalds, a sophomore at Auburn University, said his parents told him about the new ID requirements after they got their own licenses renewed – prompting him to renew his own ahead of the deadline.
He described the process as easy and "crazy smooth," so long as applicants bring the right paperwork. "Now it should be easier to fly, and hopefully I don’t have to worry about losing my passport on trips anymore!" he said.
TSA agents have warned that individuals without REAL IDs will be subject to additional screening beginning May 7 and should prepare for additional time at the airport before their flights.
Derek Jeter delivered the commencement speech at the University of Michigan Saturday and spoke about the importance of fighting through failure.
The New York Yankees legend would’ve played baseball at Michigan, the state he called home in Kalamazoo, if he didn’t turn pro right away as a first-round pick in 1992. But he did attend classes at the university and has always showed his fandom for its teams over the years.
Jeter, who received an honorary degree from Michigan, spoke to the hundreds of students graduating and used his own failure in his message to the class.
"Failure is essential," he said. "If I can promise you one thing for certain, you will fail. The bigger the dream, the bigger the risk. But what’s the price if you don’t take the risk – if you don’t commit to the dream? You might end up overmatched, or maybe you won’t."
When Jeter decided to go pro, it wasn’t smooth sailing in the minor leagues.
"I failed publicly, I failed miserably. There were days I literally cried because I was so bad. My first season as a professional, I made 56 errors. For the non-baseball fans, it’s hard to do intentionally," Jeter said, as the crowd burst into laughter. "And that’s also not funny."
Jeter’s fight through adversity worked out in the long run.
He made it to the big leagues in 1995, and the rest is history. Jeter put together a Hall of Fame career while becoming one of the most accomplished players for arguably the most storied franchise in American sports.
But he wouldn’t have gotten there if he had let failures define who he was on the diamond.
That’s the message he gave the Michigan students preparing for professional lives.
"You, me, every one of us has to learn to deal with failure," Jeter said. "I wouldn’t have had the success without the failures. It’s your job to make sure that a speed bump doesn’t become a roadblock."
Columbia University said it will cut around 180 staff members Tuesday following the Trump administration’s announcement in March that it canceled $400 million in federal grants over the Ivy League school’s "failure to protect Jewish students from antisemitic harassment."
"Across the research portfolio we have had to make difficult choices and unfortunately, today, nearly 180 of our colleagues who have been working, in whole or in part, on impacted federal grants, will receive notices of non-renewal or termination," acting Columbia University President Claire Shipman said in a statement. "This represents about 20% of the individuals who are funded in some manner by the terminated grants.
"In the coming weeks and months, we will need to continue to take actions that preserve our financial flexibility and allow us to invest in areas that drive us forward," she added. "This is a deeply challenging time across all higher education, and we are attempting to navigate through tremendous ambiguity with precision, which will be imperfect at times."
The White House did not immediately respond Tuesday to a request for comment from Fox News Digital.
Columbia University said in early March that it was "notified of federal action from Department of Justice (DOJ), Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Department of Education (ED), and the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) cancelling $400 million in federal funding to the University.
"The federal agencies cite ‘the school’s continued inaction in the face of persistent harassment of Jewish students.’ There is no question that the cancellation of these funds will immediately impact research and other critical functions of the University, impacting students, faculty, staff, research, and patient care," it added at the time.
Then in April, Columbia University caved in to demands from the Trump administration in an effort to restore federal funding.
The Ivy League school agreed to ban masks for the purpose of concealing identity, empower 36 campus police officers with new powers to arrest students and appoint a senior vice provost with broad authority to oversee the department of Middle East, South Asian and African Studies, as well as the Center for Palestine Studies.
As of today, "Columbia’s leadership continues discussions with the federal government in support of resuming activity on these research awards and additional other awards that have remained active, but unpaid," according to Shipman.
"Increasing budget constraints combined with uncertainty related to future levels of federal funding for research, including proposed reductions in facilities and administration (i.e., indirect costs) reimbursements, requires us to make difficult choices," Shipman said about the layoffs. "We have had to make deliberate, considered decisions about the allocation of our financial resources. Those decisions also impact our greatest resource, our people. We understand this news will be hard."
Fox News’ Louis Casiano and Alexis McAdams contributed to this report.
Secretary of Education Linda McMahon sent a scathing letter to Harvard University President Alan Garber on Monday, not only blasting the Massachusetts Ivy League school’s handling of antisemitism on campus but also advising school officials to refrain from applying for future federal grants because they will not "be provided."
In her no-holds-barred letter, McMahon told Garber that the federal government has a "sacred responsibility" to be an important steward of American taxpayer funds, adding that the school has amassed a largely tax-free $53.2 billion endowment and receives billions of dollars in taxpayer funds each year.
"Receiving such taxpayer funds is a privilege, not a right," she wrote. "Yet instead of using these funds to advance the education of its students, Harvard is engaging in a systemic pattern of violating federal law. Where do many of these ‘students’ come from, who are they, how do they get into Harvard, or even into our country – and why is there so much HATE? These are questions that must be answered, among many more, but the biggest question of all is, why will Harvard not give straightforward answers to the American public?"
She also said the university has "made a mockery" of the higher education system in the U.S., inviting foreign students to its campuses who engage in violent behavior and show contempt for the U.S.
McMahon slammed the school for adopting an "embarrassing" remedial math program for undergraduates, questioning why a school that's so difficult to get admitted to has to teach low-level mathematics.
She called Harvard out for being embroiled in plagiarism scandals and lambasted the school for allowing Harvard University and the Harvard Law Review to engage in "ugly racism."
McMahon blasted Harvard for hiring former Mayors Bill de Blasio of New York City and Lori Lightfoot of Chicago to teach "leadership" at its School of Public Health.
"This is like hiring the captain of the Titanic to teach navigation to future captains of the sea," she said.
"The above concerns are only a fraction of the long list of Harvard’s consistent violations of its own legal duties. Given these and other concerning allegations, this letter is to inform you that Harvard should no longer seek GRANTS from the federal government, since none will be provided," McMahon later wrote. "Harvard will cease to be a publicly funded institution and can instead operate as a privately-funded institution, drawing on its colossal endowment, and raising money from its large base of wealthy alumni.
"You have an approximately $53 billion head start, much of which was made possible by the fact that you are living within the walls of, and benefiting from, the prosperity secured by the United States of America and its free-market system you teach your students to despise," she added.
In closing, McMahon reminded Garber that the Trump administration had been willing to maintain federal funding to Harvard as long as the school complied with federal law to protect and promote student welfare and stop racial preferencing.
"The proposed common-sense reforms – which the Administration remains committed to – include a return to merit-based admissions and hiring, an end to unlawful programs that promote crude identity stereotypes, disciplinary reform and consistent accountability, including for student groups, cooperation with Law Enforcement, and reporting compliance with the Department of Education, Department of Homeland Security, and other Federal Agencies," McMahon said. "The Administration's priorities have not changed, and today’s letter marks the end of new grants for the university."
Harvard confirmed to Fox News Digital that it received a letter from the administration on Monday.
"Today, we received another letter from the administration doubling down on demands that would impose unprecedented and improper control over Harvard University and would have chilling implications for higher education," a Harvard spokesperson said. "Today’s letter makes new threats to illegally withhold funding for lifesaving research and innovation in retaliation against Harvard for filing its lawsuit on April 21.
"Harvard will continue to comply with the law, promote and encourage respect for viewpoint diversity, and combat antisemitism in our community. Harvard will also continue to defend against illegal government overreach aimed at stifling research and innovation that make Americans safer and more secure," the spokesperson continued.
McMahon's letter comes just days after President Donald Trump declared that his administration was going to be taking away Harvard’s tax-exempt status.
Trump made the announcement after Fox News reported that his administration asked the Internal Revenue Service to revoke Harvard University’s tax-exempt status. The Ivy League school's failure to address antisemitism on campus is grounds for losing its 501(c)(3) status, sources said at the time.
Trump argued in mid-April that Harvard had "lost its way" and didn't deserve federal funding.
"Harvard has been hiring almost all woke, Radical Left, idiots and ‘birdbrains’ who are only capable of teaching FAILURE to students and so-called ‘future leaders,'" Trump wrote on Truth Social. "Look just to the recent past at their plagiarizing President, who so greatly embarrassed Harvard before the United States Congress."
Harvard has become a target of Trump’s broader crackdown on universities, much of which is in response to last year’s anti-Israel unrest that erupted on campuses across the country.
On April 11, the Trump administration sent a letter to Garber and Harvard Corporation Lead Member Penny Pritzker outlining the institution’s failures and a list of demands from the White House. In the letter, the administration accused Harvard of failing to uphold civil rights laws and to foster an "environment that produces intellectual creativity."
The Trump administration threatened to pull federal funding if Harvard did not reform governance and leadership as well as its hiring and admissions practices by August 2025. The letter emphasized the need for Harvard to change its international admissions process to avoid admitting students who are "hostile" to American values or support terrorism or antisemitism.
Harvard refused to comply with the demands, with Garber saying that "no government… should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and areas of study and inquiry they can pursue."
The Trump administration then froze $2.2 billion in funding to Harvard and is reportedly looking to slash another billion, according to the Wall Street Journal.
The university later filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration over its "unlawful" freezing of funds.
Fox News' Greg Norman, Andrea Margolis, Alexis McAdams and Rachel Wolf contributed to this report.
Detroit Lions head coach Dan Campbell is spending the offseason doing what many parents find themselves doing this time of year: moving their kids back home from college.
Campbell was helping his daughter Piper pack up her college dorm at Michigan State this weekend after she finished up her freshman year, but it appears that one piece of furniture gave the NFL coach a hard time.
"Imagine seeing THE Dan Campbell and fam on campus struggling with a love sac," one person commented on the post.
"Love how DC is literally just a normal dad moving his daughter home from school for the summer. You guys rule," another added.
Campbell and the rest of the Lions coaching staff will return for work later this month when OTAs begin on May 28. Mandatory minicamp will follow beginning on June 10.
FIRST ON FOX: A brewing controversy over a "DOGE-like" email at one of America’s top universities has gotten the attention of Capitol Hill.
Rep. Troy Nehls, R-Texas, wrote to Brown University on Friday morning urging the school to reconsider any disciplinary action against Alex Shieh, a sophomore who sent an email mirroring the style of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) that asked non-faculty university workers what they did "all day."
"Reports indicate that Mr. Shieh engaged in a journalistic act of contacting university administrative employees to inquire about their roles and responsibilities. This action, it appears, stemmed from his perspective as a student paying a substantial tuition fee and experiencing concerns regarding university facilities, leading him to question the allocation of administrative resources," Nehls wrote.
"Penalizing a student for what appears to be an attempt to understand the university's administrative structure raises serious questions about the institution's commitment to open inquiry and the tolerance of dissenting viewpoints."
He also demanded more information on how Brown uses its $7.2 billion endowment to lower tuition and better the lives of students.
It comes at a time when American Ivy Leagues have been thrust under the microscope by the Trump administration, both for their soaring tuition rates and controversies surrounding antisemitism on campus.
Shieh had created a database of the 3,805 non-faculty employees who worked at Brown University and emailed them to ask, "What do you do all day?"
He wrote on X that he had been given a disciplinary hearing after being "charged with misrepresentation and violating the IT policy."
Tuition alone at Brown University for the 2025-2026 academic year is $71,700. Fees, food, and housing charges bring that up to about $93,000 per year, according to the school’s website — and with indirect charges, annual costs are estimated at nearly $96,000.
"I urge you to reconsider any disciplinary action taken against Mr. Shieh and to reaffirm Brown University's commitment to protecting the free expression of all its students," Nehls wrote.
"Additionally, below you can see screenshots from Brown’s website showing the performance of its $7.2 billion endowment, boasting a 10% annual return. Please explain how these funds are used to improve the student experience or bring down the cost of tuition."
Nehls previously introduced a bill that would significantly hike excise taxes on most larger colleges’ endowment funds from 1.4% to 21%, in line with the corporate tax rate.
A Brown University official declined to comment on Nehls' letter directly when reached by Fox News Digital, but denied free speech was the larger issue.
"In spite of what has been reported publicly framing this as a free speech issue, it absolutely is not," Brian Clark, vice president for news and strategic campus communications, said in an email statement to Fox News Digital.
"At the center of Brown's review are questions focused on whether improper use of non-public Brown data, non-public data systems and/or targeting of individual employees violated law or policy."
"Brown has detailed procedures in place to investigate alleged conduct code violations, resolve them and implement discipline in instances when students are found responsible, and these will continue to guide our actions," Clark added. "Students have ample opportunity to provide information and participate directly in that process to ensure that all decisions are made with a complete understanding of the circumstances."
Fox News Digital's Rachel del Guidice contributed to this report.
President Donald Trump declared Friday that "We are going to be taking away Harvard’s Tax Exempt Status," saying "It’s what they deserve!"
The announcement from Trump comes after Fox News reported last week that his administration asked the Internal Revenue Service to revoke Harvard University’s tax-exempt status.
The Ivy League school's failure to address antisemitism on campus is grounds for losing its 501(c)(3) status, sources said at the time.
Trump said in mid-April that Harvard had "lost its way" and didn't deserve federal funding.
"Harvard has been hiring almost all woke, Radical Left, idiots and ‘birdbrains’ who are only capable of teaching FAILURE to students and so-called ‘future leaders,'" Trump wrote on Truth Social. "Look just to the recent past at their plagiarizing President, who so greatly embarrassed Harvard before the United States Congress."
"Many others, like these Leftist dopes, are teaching at Harvard, and because of that, Harvard can no longer be considered even a decent place of learning, and should not be considered on any list of the World’s Great Universities or Colleges," he continued.
"Harvard is a JOKE, teaches Hate and Stupidity, and should no longer receive Federal Funds," Trump also said.
Harvard has become a target of Trump’s broader crackdown on universities, much of which is in response to last year’s anti-Israel unrest that erupted on campuses across the country.
On April 11, the Trump administration sent a letter to Harvard University President Dr. Alan Garber and Harvard Corporation Lead Member Penny Pritzker outlining the institution’s failures and a list of demands from the White House. In the letter, the administration accused Harvard of failing to uphold civil rights laws and to foster an "environment that produces intellectual creativity."
The Trump administration threatened to pull federal funding if Harvard did not reform governance and leadership, as well as its hiring and admissions practices by August 2025. The letter emphasized the need for Harvard to change its international admissions process to avoid admitting students who are "hostile" to American values or support terrorism or antisemitism.
Harvard refused to comply with the demands, with Garber saying that "no government… should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and areas of study and inquiry they can pursue." The university later filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration over its "unlawful" freezing of funds.
The Trump administration froze $2.2 billion in funding to Harvard, and is reportedly looking to slash another billion, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Fox News' Andrea Margolis, Alexis McAdams and Rachel Wolf contributed to this report.
President Donald Trump delivered the commencement address at the University of Alabama Thursday night and easily won the crowd over.
Trump dominated the state in last year's election, so he already had a home crowd advantage, but he earned bonus points by speaking highly of the school's athletic programs.
"There's something truly special about the players, coaches and fans who pack the stadium and proudly singing ‘Dixieland Delight.’ We like that. Alabama has changed college football forever," Trump said, shouting out both the late Bear Bryant and Nick Saban, who introduced Trump.
"The Crimson Tide does not rest, does not quit and does not stop winning until it's all time. You're always winning. That's why the University of Alabama football team has won more games in the last decade than any college football team in America. That's not bad. It's why, last fall, you beat Auburn for the fifth year in a row. That's not bad. The University of Alabama has a brand, and that brand is winning."
Trump also shouted out the men's basketball team that reached its first Final Four in program history.
"Not only is Alabama a great football school, it's now one of the nation's best basketball schools," he said.
Trump also praised the women's track team, which won the SEC, before again promising that transgender athletes won't participate in girls and women's sports.
The football team lost the ReliaQuest Bowl to Michigan, its second-straight bowl loss to the Wolverines, who beat them in the Rose Bowl en route to the 2024 national championship.
Trump attended the Crimson Tides' 41-34 victory over Georgia last season before the election.
The Trump administration has launched investigations into Harvard University and the Harvard Law Review after allegations that the journal discriminated against readers who wanted to respond to an article about police reform because they were white men.
Both the Department of Education and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) launched investigations into possible violations of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
The investigations were launched in response to information both federal agencies received about policies and practices for journal membership as well as article selection that may violate Title VI.
In a press release, HHS claimed the Harvard Law Review’s editor reportedly wrote that it was "concerning" that "four of the five people" who wanted to reply to an article on police reform were "white men."
HHS also said another editor at the Review suggested "that a piece should be subjected to expedited review because the author was a minority."
Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color and national origin in education programs and activities that receive federal funding. Any violations of Title VI could result in the loss of funds from the federal government.
"Harvard Law Review’s article selection process appears to pick winners and losers on the basis of race, employing a spoils system in which the race of the legal scholar is as, if not more, important than the merit of the submission," HHS Acting Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Craig Trainor said. "Title VI’s demands are clear: recipients of federal financial assistance may not discriminate on the basis of race, color, or national origin. No institution—no matter its pedigree, prestige, or wealth—is above the law. The Trump Administration will not allow Harvard, or any other recipients of federal funds, to trample on anyone’s civil rights."
In a statement to Fox News Digital, the school stated, "Harvard Law School is committed to ensuring that the programs and activities it oversees are in compliance with all applicable laws and to investigating any credibly alleged violations. The Harvard Law Review is a student-run organization that is legally independent from the law school. A claim brought in 2018 was dismissed by the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts."
The investigations come as the Trump administration continues to feud with elite education institutions, announcing earlier this month it would be cutting off over $2.2 billion in funding to Harvard University while threatening cuts to another $1 billion of its federal grants and funding.
After Harvard refused to comply with a series of requests from the Trump administration to reform various practices on campus, the administration revealed April 18 that it would freeze more than $2 billion in federal funding for the institution.
Harvard University President Alan M. Garber said in a statement that President Donald Trump's administration tacked on additional requests that go beyond addressing antisemitism on campus, and the institution would not comply because the demands were unconstitutional.
Garber said the new requests "direct governmental regulation of the ‘intellectual conditions’ at Harvard," including auditing viewpoints of student, faculty and staff members on campus and eliminating all diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs, offices and initiatives at Harvard.
"It makes clear that the intention is not to work with us to address antisemitism in a cooperative and constructive manner," Garber wrote. "We have informed the administration through our legal counsel that we will not accept their proposed agreement."
The Trump administration launched the Federal Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism in February, which aims to eradicate bias on campuses that have experienced incidents targeting Jewish students since October 2023.
"It is time for elite universities to take the problem seriously and commit to meaningful change if they wish to continue receiving taxpayer support," the task force said in a statement.
Fox News Digital’s Diana Stancy contributed to this report.
Five Jewish Democratic senators demanded answers from President Donald Trump on the calculus behind penalizing Harvard University, its medical school and other collegiate institutions across the country under what they called the pretext of antisemitism on campus.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York and Sens. Adam Schiff of California, Jacky Rosen of Nevada, Brian Schatz of Hawaii and Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut lambasted the president, while saying they agree on the scourge of antisemitism over time.
"Dear President Trump, we write regarding your administration's assault on universities, including threats and actions to withhold funds or otherwise punish certain institutions of higher learning, in what you claim is an effort to eliminate the very real threat of anti-Semitism on college campuses," the Thursday letter began.
"We also write as Jewish senators who have spoken out strongly against rising antisemitism here in the United States, including on college campuses, and who have called on university leaders to do more to tackle antisemitism with accountability and action in the wake of the horrific October 7 attack by Hamas on Israel."
The quintet called Trump’s decisions to freeze funding for Harvard and focus on other schools where antisemitic behavior and protests abounded last year "broad and extra-legal attacks" — adding they were "troubled and disturbed" by his decisions.
The lawmakers said Trump’s actions "seem to go far beyond combating antisemitism" and into the range of "using what is a real crisis as a pretext to attack people and institutions who do not agree with you."
Speaking of Harvard specifically, the senators said threatening to revoke the Ivy League college’s tax-exempt status and demeaning faculty as "woke, radical left idiots" goes far beyond constructive efforts to support Jewish students.
"They instead seem to be aimed broadly at changing the way the university functions, exacting huge penalties in ways wholly unrelated to combating anti-Semitism, and we fear are instead aimed at undermining or even destroying these vital institutions while hiding behind claims of tackling antisemitism as a guise," the letter said.
They offered an olive branch in seeking to work with Republicans on combating antisemitism, but reiterated their belief Trump’s overtures are "simply a means to an end" for the mogul to trash his ideological opposition.
They called on the president to respond by Wednesday of next week with data and details as to why specific colleges were targeted for a federal funding freeze, and what the calculus was for doing so.
"In the case of Harvard specifically, what specific charges had the administration made against Harvard in regards to antisemitism? Please describe your charges in specific detail, including naming specific cases and why you believe the steps that Harvard has already taken to strengthen response to antisemitism are insufficient," they wrote.
They also said Trump has targeted Harvard Medical School, lauding its cancer research in questioning that particular decision.
"What is your legal justification … when almost every legal scholar has ruled that you have no basis for doing this?" they concluded.
Separately, Schiff said during a debate last year that he also received several antisemitic attacks, particularly online.
"I take this issue very personally," he said. "What's happening on college campuses, I think, is terrifying."
In February, Rosen joined Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., to introduce the Antisemitism Awareness Act.
"Antisemitism is on the rise across the nation, particularly on college campuses, and Congress has a responsibility to do everything in its power to fight back against this hate," Rosen said in a statement.
Schatz, who is seen as a prime potential successor to Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin, D-Ill., as Democrats’ No. 2 caucus leader, tweeted in 2023 that he opposes antisemitism and Islamophobia.
"Criticism of Israel is not antisemitism. Wanting to disable Hamas is not Islamophobia. Wanting to protect civilians is neither. I may delete this once my comments become a mess," he wrote.
Earlier this year, Schumer published a book, "Antisemitism in America: A Warning," about his own life experiences.
In a tweet about the letter, Blumenthal called antisemitism "a real & horrific threat on campuses — & must be fought — but it should not be exploited as a pretext to target universities & silence dissent."
Fox News Digital reached out to the White House for a response to the joint letter.
In a statement, White House spokesperson Taylor Rogers said Trump "has done more to fight anti-Semitism and preserve free speech than any other president in American history. The Trump administration will continue fighting to preserve free speech for American citizens and push back against the anti-Semitic violence that plagued our college campuses on Joe Bidens watch."
President Donald Trump slammed Harvard University as an "[antisemitic], far-left institution" and a "threat to democracy" amid growing tensions between his administration and the university.
"Harvard is an [antisemitic], far-left institution, as are numerous others, with students being accepted from all over the world that want to rip our country apart. The place is a liberal mess, allowing a certain group of crazed lunatics to enter and exit the classroom and spew fake ANGER AND HATE," Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social. "Harvard is a threat to democracy…"
In the same post, Trump also expressed his frustration that William Burck, the attorney representing Harvard, was a legal advisor to the Trump Organization. According to The Hill, Burck was fired after Trump posted on Truth Social.
Harvard has become a target of Trump’s broader crackdown on universities, much of which is in response to last year’s anti-Israel unrest that erupted on campuses across the country.
On April 11, the Trump administration sent a letter to Harvard University President Dr. Alan Garber and Harvard Corporation Lead Member Penny Pritzker outlining the institution’s failures and a list of demands from the White House. In the letter, the administration accused Harvard of failing to uphold civil rights laws and to foster an "environment that produces intellectual creativity."
The Trump administration threatened to pull federal funding if Harvard did not reform governance and leadership, as well as its hiring and admissions practices by August 2025. The letter emphasized the need for Harvard to change its international admissions process to avoid admitting students who are "hostile" to American values or support terrorism or antisemitism.
Harvard refused to comply with the demands, with Garber saying that "no government… should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and areas of study and inquiry they can pursue." The university later filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration over its "unlawful" freezing of funds.
The Trump administration froze $2.2 billion in funding to Harvard, and is reportedly looking to slash another billion, according to The Wall Street Journal.
While Harvard appeared to be quick to reject the Trump administration’s proposal, the New York Times reported that the university’s leaders and major donors pushed for the school to make a deal.
"For weeks leading up to the April 11 letter, the corporation took a very different stance toward the Trump administration. At the urging of some of its biggest donors, the corporation frantically tried to cut a deal with Mr. Trump," the NYT reported.
In December 2023, Harvard was criticized over its handling of antisemitism and anti-Israel unrest on its campus following Hamas’ Oct. 7 massacre and the war that followed. Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y. — a Trump ally — grilled the university’s then-President Claudine Gay over whether "calling for the genocide of Jews" constituted bullying and harassment. Gay famously said that it depended on the "context," a sentiment echoed by the other Ivy League presidents who were questioned. Less than a month after the hearing, Gay resigned from her position. However, she remains employed by the university.
Yale University revoked the status of a registered pro-Palestinian student group this week, saying it "flagrantly violated the rules" and set up an unauthorized encampment to protest Israel and blocked Jewish students from crossing.
Students for Justice in Palestine's (SJP) chapter at Yale, Yalies4Palestine, rallied others to join the blockage over social media, the university said in a statement. SJP, which described the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks on Israel as a "historic win for the Palestinian resistance," has come under scrutiny in the last year for its alleged ties to Hamas.
The Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP) released a report last year alleging that SJP receives funding linked to organizations accused of supporting Hamas. The report also claimed that SJP endorsed violence against Israelis and collaborated with terrorist groups. A federal lawsuit was also filed against SJP and its affiliate, the American Muslims for Palestine (AMP), alleging they acted as collaborators and propagandists for Hamas.
Lawmakers have been skeptical of the group, too. In 2023, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis directed state universities to disband SJP chapters, alleging that the organization illegally supported Hamas.
"Concerns have been raised about disturbing antisemitic conduct at the gathering," Yale's statement said. "The university is investigating those concerns, as harassment and discrimination are antithetical to learning and scholarship. Yale condemns antisemitism and will hold those who violate our policies accountable through our disciplinary processes."
The university added that it supports "free expression on campus" that complies with the school's "time, place, and manner rules."
The student group posted videos of the demonstration on its Instagram account, and videos posted to X showed a group linking arms and blocking a Jewish student from passing through the area.
Protesters were heard chanting, "Disclose, divest, we will not stop, we will not rest."
The disciplinary action comes nearly a year after anti-Israel protests erupted across Ivy League campuses, with Yale being one of the universities with major disruptions and arrests, including a massive graduation walkout. Yale University's president during the 2024 pro-Palestine protests was Peter Salovey. Maurie McInnis succeeded him June 30.
Yale maintains it took disciplinary action against the students appropriately this week and kept a "calm campus."
The removal of the student group's official status comes a few months after President Donald Trump clamped down on antisemitism on college campuses. In January, Trump signed an executive order directing federal agencies to report on actions taken to address antisemitism in public education and to analyze complaints related to campus antisemitism after the Oct. 7 attacks.
But not all schools are falling in line with Trump's order. Harvard University announced this week a lawsuit against the Trump administration for freezing billions of dollars in research funding to the Ivy League school.
The complaint argues the administration can't make a "rational connection" between antisemitism on the campus and the federal funding it receives.
FIRST ON FOX: Amid Harvard's battle with the Trump administration, which has already pulled billions in federal funding from the university and floated taking even more, fiscal watchdog OpenTheBooks decided to take a peek at how much money the top-tier Ivy League school actually stands to lose.
Harvard has received at least $4.4 billion in federal funding through grants, contracts, sub-grants and subcontracts since the first Trump administration in 2017, the watchdog found through open-source analysis of government spending records and other publicly available data. Meanwhile, based on these numbers, Harvard collected more in federal grants and contracts than they stood to gain through tuition, room and board in any given year.
OpenTheBooks also unearthed that Harvard's $53.2 billion endowment has grown by $14 billion, or $2 billion annually, since 2018. In total, the top-tier Ivy League school has more than $7 million per undergraduate student, the watchdog's report indicated.
The analysis of Harvard's finances from OpenTheBooks comes as the institution is suing the Trump administration over the freezing of its federal funds.
After refusing to comply with President Trump's executive directives on antisemitism, DEI, viewpoint diversity and more, the Trump administration pulled $2.2 billion in multi-year grants and $60 million in multi-year government contracts. The Trump administration has indicated the potential for further cuts as well if the school does not fold to the president's demands, and is also considering stripping Harvard's tax-exempt status.
Harvard's lawsuit against the Trump administration sets up a fight over higher education autonomy, with the university alleging in its suits against multiple federal agencies that the Trump administration's demands infringe on the school's right to educate and learn free of government coercion.
Harvard University did not respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment on this story.
"America’s university system is still the envy of the world and maintaining that advantage is a matter of national security," OpenTheBooks CEO John Hart told Fox News Digital. "Harvard can lead the way in that process by rejecting totalitarian progressive fundamentalism and reviving America’s commitment to classical liberalism, true free speech, true science over ‘the science’ and rigorous, open debate."
In addition to Harvard's failure to comply with the president's executive orders, the Trump administration also accused Harvard of failing to report large foreign donations, as required by law, and has opened an investigation into the matter. On Wednesday, the president signed an executive order threatening to cut off federal funding from colleges and universities that fail to disclose their sources of foreign money.
Using data that Harvard has reported to the government pertaining to its foreign donations, OpenTheBooks found that, since 2017, Harvard has accepted at least $1.1 billion in gifts or contracts from foreign sources.
The top countries contributing to Harvard are England and China, which have each given over $100 billion to Harvard over the last eight years. Per federal law, universities are required to report payments that exceed $250,000 from foreign sources.
"As a private university, they’re free to pursue any topic they like – as long as their campus stays within the confines of the Constitution – but that doesn’t automatically entitle them to our tax money," Hart added in his comments to Fox News Digital about the Ivy League school's finances.
"Harvard can revive its commitment to academic freedom by explaining why it’s receiving millions from China, and potentially Iran proxies, and why it’s spending tax dollars on far-Left research and race-based identity politics."
