Harvard Fights to Discriminate

The Drill Down with Peter Schweizer

Government Accountability Institute

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🗓️ 22 April 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

The Trump administration’s fight with elite universities might be its toughest yet because it’s about money—federal research funds that have been given to major universities for decades. On the most recent podcast of The Drill Down, host Peter Schweizer approves of the effort: “We say that’s a good thing.” President Donald Trump’s budget hawks seek to cut wasteful spending, but that is only part of their goal. What they really want is to see elite universities return to merit-based admissions and viewpoint diversity in faculty and students, an end to campus antisemitism and elimination of so-called diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts.

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0:00.0	Research that resonates.
0:05.0	He's the president of the Government Accountability Institute, Peter Switzer.
0:09.0	Peter Schweitzer. Peter Schweitzer. Peter Schweitzer has spent many years, in fact, probably
0:16.0	done a more comprehensive job than anyone's ever done, chronicling the corruption by the powerful in Washington. The very prescient Eric Eggers.
0:22.6	Join me right now is Government Accountability Institute Research Director, Eric Eggers.
0:27.6	We're going to take information that we've learned that people like Peter Schweitzer have uncovered,
0:31.6	and we're going to try to go further.
0:34.6	Great investigative reporting, Peter. You're the only one doing it. Thank God.
0:38.3	Eric Eggers from the Government Accountability Institute and co-hosts of that great podcast,
0:43.3	The Drill Down with Peter Schweitzer.
0:45.3	This is The Drill Down with Peter Schweitzer.
0:49.3	Hi, it's Peter Schweitzer and welcome to the Drill Down.
0:52.3	The Trump administration is going after Harvard and other elite schools over their acceptance of federal taxpayer money and the conduct they're engaging in. And we say that's a good thing. We're going to unpack that today. I'm going to do it with Eric Eggers, the co-host of this program. Eric, how are you?
1:14.3	I'm excellent. I might be better, both from a professional and personal standpoint, have I gotten into one of these elite Ivy League institutions, but as somebody who graduated from, you know,
1:19.5	a state university here in Florida, I'm trying my best, Peter. Yeah, well, you know, we don't know
1:23.6	how you would have turned out if you'd gone to Harvard. You could have been even more snobby and elitist than you already are, saying that jokingly, of course.
1:30.8	So let's talk a little bit first about what the Trump administration is doing here, why they're doing it,
1:36.0	and then let's talk about why this reform is overdue.
1:39.4	Not just, I would argue, for the reasons the Trump administration has stated, but because of the waste and
1:45.1	corruption and fraud that a lot of the universities have engaged in when it comes to this money.
1:49.9	So what is the Trump administration looking for? What are their demands of the universities
1:53.5	in order to continue to receive federal grant dollars? Yeah, the Trump administration wrote
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