During Senate budget hearings, Secretary of Education Linda McMahon defended proposed education budget cuts, including a 15% overall reduction and significant Pell Grant declines. She faced bipartisan criticism as she detailed changes, including a 50% staff layoff without prior analysis. McMahon emphasized that universities such as Harvard and Columbia should ensure faculty diversity aligned with federal views, suggesting that failure to do so could be interpreted as civil rights violations, referring to Title VI of the 1964 civil rights law.
"These were civil rights violations. That is why we filed a case and stopped the funding for Harvard as well as Columbia."
"I had a few striking comments, including that universities under federal scrutiny should do a better job 'vetting' applicants to weed out those with unsavory views."
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