Education Secretary Linda McMahon questions Harvard president’s pay cut amid antisemitism probe

Minister of Education Linda McMahon has questioned the decision of the President of the Harvard Alan Garber University to reduce 25% of wages, saying that she is not sure that the University changes policies on anti -Semitism or racial discrimination.

Harvard University spokesman told Fox News on Wednesday, Garber agreed to take 25% of a salary reduction for the school year 2025-26 after Trump’s administration reduced $ 2.2 billion at the University.

McMahon was a guest at Fox Business “Evening Editing” on Thursday, and she opened on the situation at the Elite Ivy League institution and Garber’s salary reduction.

“Today I am not quite sure with President Harvard, President Garber, a reduction in a salary is somehow a statement that they change their policies about anti -Semitism or racial discrimination. I don’t think that does this a whole string to solve the problem,” McMahon said to the host Elizabeth Macdonald.

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“And if you just look at some statistics, I mean, Harvard Crimson even reported that … in their own research in recent years, 2% to 3% of colleges is conservative. And you just can’t have such deviations without theology or ideology a biased campus.”

Harvard tested on Tuesday An update of the Trump administration is coated after another $ 450 million of research funding.

The Massachusetts School changed a lawsuit a few hours after the Federal Government Working Group announced in the fight against anti -Semitism that eight federal agencies had abolished about $ 450 million in grants due to what was described in the campus as a “radical” and “dark problem”.

“Harvard University has repeatedly failed to face the penetrating discrimination of races and an anti -Semitic harassment that plagues his campus,” Working group he said in a statement.

The last freezing comes with $ 2.2 billion financing Trump administration, which has already retained threats to recall the status of a Harvard tax.

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Harvard filed his initial lawsuit in April to block $ 2.2 billion in refusal funding.

In your own A modified lawsuitHarvard said that most of the funds that were initially frozen was now abolished, obviously without hope that he would bring him back.

McMahon told Macdonald not to think that Harvard had changed his practice, adding that Trump’s administration went to the university to investigate.

“We wanted to sit with President Garber. I talked to him,” McMahon said. “We intended to sit down and talk about things. We sent a letter … and asked him to reach the table. And his answer was the lawsuit Harvard filed.”

Since then, she said, there was another communication with Garber, noting that Trump’s administration had done some things without taking away the lawsuit.

But she added that she was ready to talk to Harvard officials, which the University works differently.

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McMahon admitted that Harvard tried to make changes, including the request of the Chairman of the School Department for Studies in the Middle East to deviate.

Still, she made it clear that Trump’s administration is not removing anything from the table.

“It is clear that anti -Semitism is a violation of civil rights in the campus, and Harvard claimed, as other elite universities have, that … maybe their first real amendment is shortened,” McMahon said. “It’s not about the first amendment. These are civic rights.

“When you put other students in danger, their safety is worrying,” she added. “And their Jewish students will tell us that they are even afraid of going to the campus’ activities. These are obviously violations of civil rights. Yes, it submits an investigation, and we do not remove anything from the table.”

Harvard has become a target of Trump’s wider break at universitiesMuch of which is a response to last year’s anti-Israeli unrest that broke out in campuses across the country.

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April 11, Trump’s administration sent a letter Garber and Harvard Corporation Penny Pritzker in which they presented the institutions and a list of the White House requests. The letter accused Harvard of not being able to support civil rights laws and encourage “an environment that creates intellectual creativity.”

Trump’s administration threatened to withdraw federal funding if Harvard did not reform the management and leadership and his employment practices and admission by August 2025. The letter emphasized the need for Harvard to change its international admission process to avoid accepting students who are “hostile to US values ​​or support terrorism or anti -Semitism.

Harvard refused to meet the requirements, and Garber said that “no government … should dictate what private universities can learn, who I can recognize and hire, and areas of studying and testing that can continue.”

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Trump’s administration then froze $ 2.2 billion in Harvard financing and allegedly wants to reduce another billion, according to the Wall Street Journal.

The University later filed a lawsuit against Trump’s administration for its “unlawful” freezing of funds.

Fox News Digital, Greg Norman, Andrea Margolis, Stephen Sorace and Bonny Chu, contributed to this report.