00:00As part of my commitment to restore the warrior ethos within the War Department, it's imperative
00:06to stay mission-focused across the full spectrum of expenditures.
00:11This includes maximizing our return on investment when officers and senior enlisted service
00:15members attend expensive civilian universities.
00:19Graduates should emerge much more capable warfighters.
00:23You'd think.
00:24But, unfortunately, America's highly ranked universities no longer live up to their founding
00:29principles as bastions of free speech, open inquiry, and committed to the American values
00:35that make our country great.
00:38Take Harvard University, for example.
00:41I know it well.
00:43Our military has had a rich tradition with Harvard throughout American history.
00:47In 1775, you probably didn't know this, General George Washington took command of the Continental
00:52Army in Harvard Yard and used the university as a military base.
00:59From that time through the Korean War, military service was commonplace at Harvard.
01:05There are more recipients of our nation's Medal of Honor who went to Harvard than any other
01:09civilian institution in the United States.
01:15But today, this university with such a unique history, which receives billions of our federal
01:21tax dollars, is one of the red-hot centers of hate America activism.
01:28Too many faculty members openly loathe our military.
01:31They cast our armed forces in a negative light and squelch anyone who challenges their leftist
01:36political leanings, all while charging enormous tuition.
01:42It's not worth it.
01:44They've replaced open inquiry and honest debate with rigid orthodoxy.
01:50In our line of work, ideological automatons are useless.
01:56We need leaders who can wrestle with multiple viewpoints, professionals who can think critically
02:00and independently to solve important questions.
02:05Even more troubling is Harvard's partnership with our adversaries.
02:09Campus research programs have partnered with the Chinese Communist Party.
02:14University leadership encouraged a campus environment that celebrated Hamas, allowed attacks on Jews,
02:20and still promotes discrimination based on race in violation of Supreme Court decisions.
02:26DEI was literally founded at Harvard.
02:30Thankfully, President Trump understands this and has moved to end these abuses.
02:35He called out Harvard for being a factory of woke ideology and a breeding ground for anti-American radicals.
02:41His administration reminded Harvard leadership that it's the responsibility of the federal government
02:46to ensure that all recipients are responsible stewards of taxpayer funds.
02:52Last year, the Trump administration put Harvard on notice.
02:55Quote, Harvard has fundamentally failed to protect American students and faculty from anti-Semitic violence
03:00and harassment in addition to other alleged violations of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
03:06End quote.
03:08Why should the War Department support an environment that's destructive to our nation and the principles that the vast majority of Americans hold dear?
03:16The answer to that question is that we should not.
03:21And we will not.
03:23For too long, this department has sent our best and brightest officers to Harvard, hoping the university would better understand and appreciate our warrior class.
03:33Instead, too many of our officers came back looking too much like Harvard, heads full of globalist and radical ideologies that do not improve our fighting ranks.
03:46So, starting now and beginning in the 2026-2027 school year, I am discontinuing all graduate level professional military education, PME, all fellowships and certificate programs
04:01between Harvard University and the War Department for active duty service members.
04:08This policy applies to service members enrolling in future courses of study at Harvard University while on active duty.
04:16Now, any currently enrolled service members will be allowed to finish their course of study.
04:21With some exceptions, the Ivy League as a whole has pervasive institutional bias and a lack of viewpoint diversity,
04:27including the coddling of toxic ideologies that undercuts our mission right here in this building.
04:34That is why in two weeks' time, components of all of our departments, Army, Navy and Air Force,
04:40will evaluate all existing graduate programs for active duty service members at all Ivy League universities and other civilian universities.
04:50The goal is to determine whether or not they actually deliver cost-effective strategic education for future senior leaders
04:57when compared to, say, public universities and our military graduate programs.
05:02At the War Department, we will strive to maximize taxpayer value in building lethality to establish deterrence.
05:10It's that simple.
05:11That no longer includes spending millions of dollars on expensive universities that actively undercut our mission and undercut our country.
05:20We train warriors, not wokesters.
05:24Harvard?
05:25Good riddance.
05:27Harvard.
05:28Harvard
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