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For these grants to be re-issued, a senior Education Department official said Harvard 'would have to enter into a negotiation with the government to satisfy what the government says is in compliance with all federal laws.' 'Harvard became, over time, a political advocacy organization for one party,' he claimed. 'When a university goes from being a university to becoming a political advocacy organization, it doesn't deserve nonprofit status.' 'The Trump administration won't stand by as taxpayer dollars are used to support colleges that tolerate anti-Semitism or that support racist policies,' the official continued during a call with reporters Monday night.

'They have become monolithically leftist and that DEI ideology connects to the anti-Semitism problem because they're teaching young people to make snap judgments about each other based on identity and skin color,' the senior official said.  'If this were any other kind of corporation, the notion that she's still chairman of Harvard, leading the charge here and, in terms of Harvard, managed everything from COVID... to endowment management, to waste, to free speech, to who they hired as president of the university...

It's time for a change in leadership in the board at Harvard.' He has since also called out Trump's plans to remove the school's tax-exempt status, which he told the Wall Street Journal is 'granted to educational institutions to enable them to successfully carry out their mission of education and, for research universities, of research. 'They have become monolithically leftist and that DEI ideology connects to the anti-Semitism problem because they're teaching young people to make snap judgments about each other based on identity and skin color,' the senior official said.

Ackman, the founder and CEO of Pershing Square, made similar arguments on Tuesday, when he said Harvard should not be entitled to taxpayer funds when the school wastes money on what he calls 'administrative bloat'  He then again hit out at the school's governing board, saying it has become insular and that there is no mechanism to remove members the way there is in corporate America where investors can run board challenges. '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?' Secretary McMahon continued in the opening paragraph.  'For Harvard to become eligible for those competitions again, it would have to enter into a negotiation with the government to satisfy what the government says is in compliance with all federal laws,' the official said.

'Harvard is engaging in a systemic (sic) pattern of violating federal law,' McMahon wrote in her letter, which both the university and others who edited the letter noted was likely meant to say 'systematic.' The letter goes on to mock Harvard's educational standards, despite McMahon's own mistakes. She goes after the Ivy League for the teaching of 'remedial math' and calls attention to plagiarism scandals at the school. 'They have lost all future grants, their tax exemptions are at risk,' Ackman said on a panel at the Milken Institute Global Conference where 5,000 financiers, educators and scientists gather to discuss critical issues of the day.