Harvard president Alan Garber has said Trump’s threat to go after endowments ‘keeps me up at night’
Harvard University has hired the former lobbying firm of Trump chief of staff Susie Wiles and Trump attorney general nominee Pam Bondi as the Ivy League school hopes to dampen investigations into campus anti-Semitism and curtail threats to tax its massive $53 billion endowment.
Harvard tapped Ballard Partners to lobby on the broad issue of “advocacy supporting education and educational research,” according to lobbying disclosures filed with Congress.
The hiring comes as Harvard president Alan Garber has signaled the university will take a more diplomatic approach to the second Trump term compared to the first. Garber reportedly told Harvard faculty…
