{"id":128831,"date":"2025-07-29T15:50:17","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T23:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/07\/29\/harvard-law-graduate-is-helping-trump-attack-her-alma-mater\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T15:50:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T23:50:17","slug":"harvard-law-graduate-is-helping-trump-attack-her-alma-mater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/07\/29\/harvard-law-graduate-is-helping-trump-attack-her-alma-mater\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvard Law Graduate Is Helping Trump Attack Her Alma Mater"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are many ways to pay homage and give back to the schools that brought you up. There\u2019s the obvious donating, there\u2019s volunteering \u2014 hell, giving your school a shout out on social media even counts for something. But playing a part in keeping billions of dollars in federal funding from your alma mater\u2019s hands is a very strange way to show school spirit. That said, the Trump administration has a history of trying to extract fealty from whoever engages with it. From The Boston Globe<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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May Mailman, a 2015 Harvard Law School graduate, didn\u2019t expect to find herself one day representing the White House on the other side of a high-stakes negotiation with her alma mater. But as a senior policy official for President Trump, Mailman has become a point person on the administration\u2019s campaign to bring higher education to heel.\u2060
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\u201cI think it should be the case that our vision and their vision is the same, which is: How do we create the next generation of great leaders, science, and medicine,\u201d Mailman said.\u2060<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

You\u2019d think a Harvard grad would be smart enough to know that the answer is decidedly not<\/em> gutting education at all levels. Besides the obvious harm that withholding billions of federal dollars for research will do for disciplines like science and medicine:<\/p>\n

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Trump’s war on health care continues\u2014the NIH is forced to shrink the amount of grants funded for crucial research, like cancer treatment.<\/p>\n

From cutting a trillion dollars from Medicaid to slashing medical research\u2014millions will die at the GOP’s hands. https:\/\/t.co\/HVYj9LSb69<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 314 Action (@314action) July 29, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

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Trump\u2019s team wants to slash funding for the National Institutes of Health by 40 percent. That means 15,000 fewer research grants for cancer, Alzheimer\u2019s, and rare disease treatments. China is investing in science. We\u2019re pulling the plug. That is how you LOSE the future.\u2026<\/p>\n

\u2014 Mike Levin (@MikeLevin) July 26, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

The Trump administration is also withholding $6.8B dollars that was already earmarked for K-12 education<\/a>. Unless creating the next generation of leaders in science and medicine means paying a lot of money for foreign specialists to do the thinking for us, rapidly gutting funding at the kindergarten through post-graduate levels seems like the direct opposite of what needs to be done. But what do I know \u2014 I\u2019m no Harvard grad, I merely graduated from WashU. Go Bears!<\/p>\n

Harvard Law Grad Has A Hand In Slapping University Around<\/a> [The Boston Globe]<\/p>\n

Earlier<\/strong>: Trump Administration Places Thumb On Negotiation Scale, Decides Harvard Didn\u2019t Do Enough To Fight Antisemitism<\/a><\/p>\n

States Sue Trump For Money Congress Already Allotted To Public Education<\/a><\/p>\n

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Chris Williams became a social media manager and assistant editor for Above the Law in June 2021. Prior to joining the staff, he moonlighted as a minor Memelord\u2122 in the Facebook group\u00a0Law School Memes for Edgy T14s .\u00a0He endured Missouri long enough to graduate from Washington University in St. Louis School of Law. He is a former boatbuilder who is learning to swim,\u00a0is interested in critical race theory, philosophy, and humor, and has a love for cycling that occasionally annoys his peers. You can reach him by email at\u00a0cwilliams@abovethelaw.com<\/a> and by tweet at\u00a0@WritesForRent<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The post Harvard Law Graduate Is Helping Trump Attack Her Alma Mater<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There are many ways to pay homage and give back to the schools that brought you up. There\u2019s the obvious donating, there\u2019s volunteering \u2014 hell, giving your school a shout out on social media even counts for something. But playing a part in keeping billions of dollars in federal funding from your alma mater\u2019s hands is a very strange way to show school spirit. That said, the Trump administration has a history of trying to extract fealty from whoever engages with it. From The Boston Globe<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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May Mailman, a 2015 Harvard Law School graduate, didn\u2019t expect to find herself one day representing the White House on the other side of a high-stakes negotiation with her alma mater. But as a senior policy official for President Trump, Mailman has become a point person on the administration\u2019s campaign to bring higher education to heel.\u2060
\u2026
\u201cI think it should be the case that our vision and their vision is the same, which is: How do we create the next generation of great leaders, science, and medicine,\u201d Mailman said.\u2060<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

You\u2019d think a Harvard grad would be smart enough to know that the answer is decidedly not<\/em> gutting education at all levels. Besides the obvious harm that withholding billions of federal dollars for research will do for disciplines like science and medicine:<\/p>\n

The Trump administration is also withholding $6.8B dollars that was already earmarked for K-12 education<\/a>. Unless creating the next generation of leaders in science and medicine means paying a lot of money for foreign specialists to do the thinking for us, rapidly gutting funding at the kindergarten through post-graduate levels seems like the direct opposite of what needs to be done. But what do I know \u2014 I\u2019m no Harvard grad, I merely graduated from WashU. Go Bears!<\/p>\n

Harvard Law Grad Has A Hand In Slapping University Around<\/a> [The Boston Globe]<\/p>\n

Earlier<\/strong>: Trump Administration Places Thumb On Negotiation Scale, Decides Harvard Didn\u2019t Do Enough To Fight Antisemitism<\/a><\/p>\n

States Sue Trump For Money Congress Already Allotted To Public Education<\/a><\/p>\n

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Chris Williams became a social media manager and assistant editor for Above the Law in June 2021. Prior to joining the staff, he moonlighted as a minor Memelord\u2122 in the Facebook group\u00a0Law School Memes for Edgy T14s .\u00a0He endured Missouri long enough to graduate from Washington University in St. Louis School of Law. He is a former boatbuilder who is learning to swim,\u00a0is interested in critical race theory, philosophy, and humor, and has a love for cycling that occasionally annoys his peers. You can reach him by email at\u00a0[email\u00a0protected]<\/a> and by tweet at\u00a0@WritesForRent<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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