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Daily Signal Podcast: EXCLUSIVE: Linda McMahon Confirms Deal With Harvard Is Close

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4.4651 Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2026

⏱️ 26 minutes

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FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Secretary of Education Linda McMahon told The Daily Signal a settlement with Harvard University is close, after a protracted battle over the university’s diversity, equity, and inclusion practices. Trump said Wednesday that he heard the United States had a deal with Harvard. “I hear we have a deal but who the […]

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0:00.0

The administration has made deals with a variety of elite universities, but negotiations are ongoing with Harvard.

0:07.0

The president said today that we may have a deal pretty soon here.

0:11.0

Do you have an update on that?

0:12.0

Well, he's right. It's ongoing.

0:14.0

What does the Trump administration need in order to settle with Harvard?

0:17.0

Just continuing negotiations.

0:19.0

Harvard's made some concessions. They've come to the table on some things, and we're still, you know, this is the way negotiations go. You go back and forth until you get a deal done. I'm at the Department of Education with Secretary of Education Linda McMahon. Thank you so much for doing this interview. Oh, it's great to be here. Thank you. Thank you very much for coming over.

0:41.1

Next week is School Choice Week. What is on the schedule?

0:45.0

Well, we're going to have a big announcement at the beginning of the week,

0:51.3

designated that this is School Choice Week. We'll be doing some traveling, but it'll be a really,

0:56.6

really fun week. And this is, you know, it's really a special week because the president absolutely believes in school choice.

0:57.6

I mean, he's the first president, I think, to get a national school choice bill into one

1:02.5

big, beautiful bill.

1:04.4

And he's very excited about this.

1:06.8

We'll be talking about it all week long.

1:09.6

About 15 states have opted into school

1:11.5

choice so far. How many more states do you expect will often? I hope as many

1:16.9

as possible. I think we'll get at least to 25 and hopefully more. But it's a big

1:25.3

project. Some states have tried very hard.

1:27.8

I think Governor Reynolds it took her two years, two terms actually, to get her school

1:33.4

choice pushed through.

1:35.7

But she was adamant about getting it done.

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