Overview
- Negotiations to resolve investigations and restore frozen federal research funding are "very close," McMahon told reporters at the White House on Thursday.
- In October, President Trump said a potential agreement would include about $500 million from Harvard plus new trade‑school programs, a detail the university has not confirmed.
- The administration has withheld more than $2 billion in grants while threatening accreditation and international student access, prompting Harvard lawsuits that won partial relief in September from Judge Allison D. Burroughs.
- Harvard said this week it is reviewing individuals named in newly released Jeffrey Epstein files after documents highlighted extensive correspondence involving former university president Larry Summers.
- Summers said he would step back from public commitments and resigned from the OpenAI board as the House released thousands of Epstein-related files.