McMahon as Harvard University

Education Secretary Linda McMahon sent a stern letter to Harvard President Alan Garber on Monday, not only blew up the Massachusetts Ivy League schools’ handling of anti-Semitism on campus, but also advised school officials not to apply for future federal grants because they will not offer “being offered.”

McMahon told Garber in her untrust letter that the federal government has a "sacred responsibility" to become a key steward of U.S. taxpayer funds, adding that the school amasses a taxable $53.2 billion donations each year, collecting billions of dollars in taxpayer funds each year.

“Getting this taxpayer funding is a privilege, not a right,” she wrote. Rather than using this funding to promote students’ education, Harvard is in a systematic model of violating federal law. Where do many of these students come from, who are they, how they get into Harvard, and even into our country – why are there so much hatred? Are these problems becoming more and more?

She also said the university “broken” the U.S. higher education system, inviting foreign students to join its campuses who engage in violence and show contempt for the U.S.

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Education Secretary Linda McMahon sent a stern letter to Harvard President Alan Garber, advising him not to apply for federal grants because it would not be offered. (Getty Image)

McMahon slams schools for adopting “embarrassing” math programs for undergraduates, questioning why schools that are hard to accept must teach lower-level math.

She summoned Harvard to get caught up in a burglary scandal and slammed the school for allowing Harvard and Harvard Law Review to engage in "ugly racism."

McMahon blows up Harvard hired former Mayor Bill de Blasio of New York City and Lori Lightfoot of Chicago to teach "Leadership" at its School of Public Health.

"It's like hiring a captain of the Titanic to spread sailing to future sea captains," she said.

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McMahon later wrote: "The above concerns are just a long list of Harvard's consistent violation of its own legal duties. In view of these and other allegations regarding the charges, the letter tells you that Harvard should no longer seek grants from the federal government because no one has provided them," McMahon later wrote. “Harvard will cease to become a publicly funded institution that can operate as a privately funded institution, drawing on its huge donations and raising funds from its vast base for wealthy alumni.

She added: “You live in the prosperity guaranteed by the United States of America and its free market system, and you teach students the prosperity that they despise, which gives you an opening of about $53 billion, most of which is possible.”

At the end, McMahon reminded Garber that the Trump administration would be willing to maintain federal funding as long as schools comply with federal laws to protect and promote student welfare and stop racial preference.

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Harvard President Alan Garber (Screen shot/NBC)

“The proposed common sense reforms (the measures the government remains committed to taking) include a return to performance-based acceptance and recruitment, ending the end of illegal programs that promote sketchy identity stereotypes, discipline reforms and consistent accountability, including student groups, including collaboration with law enforcement, and compliance law firms with the Ministry of Education, with Family Security Reports, Mike and other Agmah agmah odsecies of serials, “cmmah agmah odsecies” “The government’s priorities have not changed, and today’s letter marks the end of new grants from the University. ”

Harvard University confirmed to Fox News Digital Digital that it received a letter from the administration on Monday.

"Today, we have received another letter from the government that has exerted unprecedented control over Harvard, which has a shocking impact on higher education," a Harvard spokesman said. "Today's letters have illegally seized new threats to life-saving research and innovation in retaliation for Harvard as he filed a lawsuit on April 21.

The spokesman continued: "Harvard will continue to abide by the law, promote and encourage respect for diversity of perspectives, and combat anti-Semitism in our community. Harvard will also continue to resist excessive illegal government abuses designed to stifle research and innovation, which makes Americans safer and safer."

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McMahon's letter comes days after President Donald Trump announced that his administration would take Harvard tax-free status.

Trump reported on Fox News that his administration asked the IRS to revoke Harvard’s tax-free status. Sources said at the time that the Ivy League schools failed to address anti-Semitism on campus was a reason to lose its 501(c)(3) status.

Trump argued in mid-April that Harvard was "lost" and should not receive federal funds.

"Harvard has been hiring almost all awakened, radical left, idiot and 'bird brain' who can only teach failed students and so-called 'future leaders'," Trump wrote in The Society of Truth. "Looking at the recent plagiarism of the president, they were very embarrassed in front of the U.S. Congress."

Harvard has become the target of Trump's wider crackdown on universities, much of which is in response to the anti-Israel unrest that broke out across campuses across the country last year.

On April 11, the Trump administration sent a letter to Garber and Harvard chief member Penny Pritzker outlining the agency’s failure and the White House’s list of demands. In the letter, the government accused Harvard of failing to uphold civil rights laws and promoting “environment that produces intellectual creativity.”

The Trump administration threatened not to reform governance and leadership and its recruitment and admission practices by August 2025, and threatened to collect federal funds. The letter highlights the need for Harvard to change its international admissions process to avoid students who recognize “hostile” to American values ​​or support terrorism or anti-Semitism.

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Harvard refused to comply with the requirements, and Garber said: “No government … should decide what private universities can teach, people they can acknowledge and hire and areas of study and inquiry they can pursue.”

The Trump administration then freezes $2.2 billion in funding and is reportedly seeking to cut $1 billion, according to the Wall Street Journal.

The university later filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration’s “illegal” freeze of funds.

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

Greg Wehner is a prominent news reporter at Fox News Digital.

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