A renegade member of Donald Trump’s own party has blasted the president’s attempts to pressure the nation’s top universities into conforming to his MAGA agenda.

“The surest way to screw up the world’s best technical school is to let feds tell them how to run it,” Kentucky Congressman Thomas Massie wrote on X. “Congrats to my alma mater for turning down a bribe to let the executive branch dictate what happens on its campus. A lot of things are wrong in [the U.S.], but MIT is not one of them.”

His late night post came after the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Friday became the first university in the country to reject White House proposals tying federal funding to a set of demands from the MAGA administration.

The Department of Education sent a memo to nine top U.S. colleges earl

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