Harvard president claims 'unfounded retaliation' amid Trump funding feud

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. 

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