In reaction to a massive $3 billion federal funding cut, signed by President Trump, Harvard president Alan Garber will be forced to take a 15% pay cut to make ends meet. Trump has long feuded with the woke university and harshly criticized the Ivy League school for their failure to protect Jewish students during pro-Palestine demonstrations.
For context, the funding cuts came after months of escalating tension between higher education and the Trump administration. Harvard, among other prominent universities, was accused of tolerating anti-Semitism during pro-Palestinian protests, and leadership at these schools has resisted federal demands for oversight.
Slamming Harvard for its inaction, the federal government’s Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism wrote a letter to the embattled school on May 13, 2025, noting the university has “repeatedly failed to confront the pervasive racial discrimination and anti-Semitic harassment plaguing its campus.”
Continuing the verbal rebuke, the letter said, “Harvard’s campus, once a symbol of academic prestige, has become a breeding ground for virtue signaling and discrimination. There is a dark problem on Harvard’s campus, and by prioritizing appeasement over accountability, institutional leaders have forfeited the school’s claim to taxpayer support.”
Reacting to the news on social media, conservatives responded with joy. One commenter joked, “*HARVARD PRESIDENT TO TAKE VOLUNTARY 25% PAY CUT…But will boost bribes by 50%.” In the comments under the post, commentators slammed the woke university.
Criticising the Ivy League university, one account wrote a lengthy event analysis. The commenter replied, “Harvard’s performative pay cuts are a distraction from the real issue: taxpayers funded their discrimination racket for decades. The College Admissions Accountability Act of 2025 finally forces accountability, authorizing $25M to investigate race-based admissions scams—pennies compared to the $3B in federal grants Harvard blew on DEI bureaucrats instead of merit.”
Concluding the analysis, the user continued, “Garber’s salary theater doesn’t offset the rot: while professors virtue-signal 10% pay “donations,” the administration fought to keep racist policies alive even after SCOTUS ruled them unconstitutional,” adding, “Now they cry foul when funding dries up? Classic Ivy League grift—protect the bureaucracy, not the students.”
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As background, Trump has made a series of disparaging comments about Harvard. As we reported, he president took to social media in April 2025 to slam the university: “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.'”
Adding to his rebuke, Trump declared, “Look just to the recent past at their plagiarizing President, who so greatly embarrassed Harvard before the United States Congress. Harvard is a JOKE, teaches Hate and Stupidity, and should no longer receive Federal Funds.”
Agreeing with Trump, Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) slammed the Ivy League University for platforming an anti-Israeli activist who minimized the crimes of Hamas. He said, “I am truly appalled that the Kennedy School would platform an individual who celebrates and justifies Hamas’ October 7th killing of Israeli citizens—babies, children, the elderly, and the systemic, r*pe, mutilation, and torture of young girls and women.”
Building on this point, he said that the controversial speaker was unacceptable. Fetterman stated, “This hate has absolutely no place in any sanctioned dialogue. Decency would demand it relegated to the sewer of social media fringe. As an alumni and a member of the United States Senate, 25 years later, it’s hard to recognize my former university.”