Secretary McMahon wants Harvard “ to return to the table ” to negotiate with Trump administrator

In the midst of the Trump administration quarrel with Harvard University, education secretary Linda McMahon said she wanted the school to negotiate with the White House.

“I would like Harvard to come back to the table to negotiate with us,” said McMahon exclusively to ABC News on Wednesday. “Their response [to the administration’s demands] was a trial, but we will continue to speak if they want to speak. “”

Leaving that the policies and priorities of his department in Capitol Hill, McMahon, said that the administration was actively communicating with Harvard and said that the school had respected some of its orders to end discrimination, including the alleged Dei and anti -Semitic activities.

Harvard has taken measures to combat alleged anti-Semitism, in particular the publication of directives clarifying its non-discrimination and anti-intimidation (NDAB) policies. The school has improved and expanded education sessions in anti -Semitism through the Bok Center for Teaching and Learning.

McMahon said Harvard has an ongoing trial, so negotiations are selected before the courts.

McMahon faced a damage to his mission to close the Ministry of Education during grills of more than three hours before the Education and La Chamber’s workforce, but throughout the hearing, she defended the Ministry’s efforts to combat anti-Semitism.

“I actually think that we stimulated them,” McMahon told Harvard, Alun Elise Stefanik, RN.Y., saying that the alleged crisis at Harvard slowly dissipated with the help of the administration’s pressure campaign.

“When we started to put teeth in what we were doing, they finally said, we are going to make changes and they did it shortly after our investigations.”

The conflict between the Trump and Harvard administration stems from the joint multi-agencies of the administration of the administration on anti-Semitism, which froze more than $ 2 billion in federal funding of the institution. After Harvard refused to comply with the requests of the administration, saying that Trump had abused his executive authority, the saga has died into several other administration movements,

This included the cessation of new research subsidies, investigating the Harvard Law Review for alleged discrimination and attempting to intervene at the University of the registration of international students.

During his testimony on Wednesday, McMahon said that anti-Semitism is a violation of civil rights under the anti-discrimination law of title VI, distinguishing that pro-Palestinian manifestations are not a question of first amendment.

She said that Jewish students are afraid of being on the Harvard campus and that the administration strives to provide them with a “safe environment”.

“We want to make sure that students who frequent these elite universities feel safe on campus when they are there and there are no acts of anti -Semitism or discrimination of a form,” said McMahon.