Ohio gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy stopped by Hannity Thursday night to chat with guest host Jason Chaffetz about Harvard University’s feud with President Donald Trump.
Harvard receives half a billion dollars in federal funding annually.
“The university always leaned left, it leaned left when I was there,” Ramaswamy, who graduated from Harvard in 2007, said. “But back then, it was an institution that cared about free speech and open debate … but now their embrace of free speech is selective and based on which cause they’re espousing.”
“My view is that they need to get out of the business of indoctrinating and get back to the pursuit of truth,” Ramaswamy continued. “And I predict this could be the beginning of a trend of private universities decoupling themselves from federal funding.”
“The fact of the matter is this issue of the federal government telling universities what to do or not to do is not some new issue — it’s an issue that goes back to the mid-20th century if not before when our federal government was overspending its money anyway. We’re in a national debt crisis, and we need to cut down what our federal government is spending. We need to return as much of that to the people, anyway.”
Ramaswamy’s advice for universities? “Decouple yourself” from the federal government.
Watch Ramaswamy’s take above.
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