{"id":2697347,"date":"2026-11-03T20:41:02","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T01:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-york-times-federal-reserve-harvard-columbia-employees-pour-campaign-cash-into-hard-left-candidates\/"},"modified":"2026-11-03T20:47:06","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T01:47:06","slug":"new-york-times-federal-reserve-harvard-columbia-employees-pour-campaign-cash-into-hard-left-candidates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-york-times-federal-reserve-harvard-columbia-employees-pour-campaign-cash-into-hard-left-candidates\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Times, Federal Reserve, Harvard, Columbia Employees Pour Campaign Cash Into Hard-Left Candidates"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnew-york-times-federal-reserve-harvard-columbia-employees-pour-campaign-cash-into-hard-left-candidates%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2697347&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Employees at institutions such as The New York Times, the Federal Reserve, Harvard, and Columbia have donated thousands of dollars to Democratic campaigns &#8211; including candidates on the further left &#8211; a Washington Free Beacon review found.<\/p>\n<p>President Trump used Election Day to criticize the Fed, claiming its leadership (which he said includes people from the Obama and Biden administrations) is keeping interest rates high and preventing a balanced budget.<\/p>\n<p>The report argues these organizations frequently enough portray themselves as elite, merit-based, and neutral, but campaign finance records suggest many of their staff financially support democratic or left-leaning causes.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Times\u2019 ethics guidelines say staff may not give or solicit political donations to avoid the appearance that the paper is taking sides. Despite that, the review identified donations from Times employees: reporter\/graphics editor Harry Stevens gave $1,000 to Democratic congressional candidate Beth Macy (even though his Times bio states he does not make political donations), software engineer Michael Hoffman gave $500 to Brad Lander\u2019s campaign, and data analyst Eric Stone gave $250 to Lander. Longtime obituary editor Peter Keepnews has made hundreds of contributions to Democrats; some records list the Times as his employer and others do not. He reportedly left the paper in October 2025 and declined to comment.<\/p>\n<p>At the Federal Reserve, records show individual staff donations as well: Irfan Murtuza gave a total of $3,000 to Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El\u2011Sayed; New York Fed economist Keshav Dogra donated $1,750 each to Claire Valdez and Darializa Avila Chevalier; and Dolph Haas gave $2,000 to Texas Democrat James Talarico\u2019s Senate campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Columbia affiliates have also given large sums: Rachael L. Ross, who lists Columbia University as her employer, contributed $245,000 to the Movement Voter PAC (which channels funds to the Working Families Party and affiliates), senior adviser Irwin Redlener gave $50,000 to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, and amra Sabic\u2011El\u2011Rayess of Columbia Teachers College donated $10,000 to el\u2011Sayed\u2019s campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Harvard affiliates appear in the records too: public health professor Mary Bassett gave $5,000 to El\u2011Sayed, Farrah Ezzeddine gave $3,500 to El\u2011Sayed, and Harvard Kennedy School fellow Antonio weiss contributed $3,500 to Lander\u2019s campaign.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><h2>One Columbia professor gave $10,000 to El-Sayed<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<figure><figcaption> \t\t\t\t \t\t\t\tAbdul El-Sayed (Scott Legato\/Getty Images for MoveOn)\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Employees of the <em>New York Times<\/em>, the Federal Reserve, Harvard, and Columbia have poured thousands of dollars in campaign cash into Democratic political campaigns\u2014including some of the most extreme far-left candidates\u2014a <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> review found.<\/p>\n<p>President Trump highlighted the broader issue in an Election Day <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RapidResponse47\/status\/2117615877440847904\">comment<\/a>, characterizing the Federal Reserve as preventing a balanced budget with its high interest rates because it is &#8220;populated by Obama and Biden people, and they don\u2019t want to do the right thing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Fed is just one example of institutions that congratulate themselves as being elite, meritocratic, and independent, yet in reality\u2014as the campaign finance records indicate\u2014function as part of the Democratic or even farther left political machine.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>New York Times<\/em> &#8220;ethical journalism&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/editorial-standards\/ethical-journalism.html\">handbook<\/a> states: &#8220;Staff members may not give money to, or solicit money for, any political candidate or election cause. Political giving by a staff member would carry a great risk of feeding a false impression that The Times is taking sides.&#8221; Yet among the contributions uncovered by the <em>Free Beacon<\/em> review were a $1,000 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fec.gov\/data\/receipts\/individual-contributions\/?contributor_employer=New+York+Times&#038;two_year_transaction_period=2026&#038;min_date=01%2F01%2F2025&#038;max_date=12%2F31%2F2026\">contribution<\/a> to Democratic congressional candidate Beth Macy from Harry Stevens. The <em>Times<\/em> website <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/by\/harry-stevens\">describes<\/a> him as &#8220;a New York Times reporter and graphics editor covering climate change&#8221; and who says there, &#8220;I do not participate in political causes, nor do I make political donations.&#8221; Stevens and a <em>New York Times<\/em> spokesman didn\u2019t immediately reply to a request for comment on the apparent donation.<\/p>\n<p><em>New York Times<\/em> staffers also contributed to the campaign of Democratic congressional candidate Brad Lander, who ran a Zohran Mamdani-backed primary challenge against an incumbent Democratic congressman, Dan Goldman, that was almost entirely premised on the attack that Goldman had been insufficiently anti-Israel. Michael Hoffman, a <em>New York Times<\/em> software engineer, gave Lander\u2019s campaign $500, and Eric Stone, a <em>New York Times<\/em> data analyst, gave Lander\u2019s campaign $250.<\/p>\n<p>A longtime <em>New York Times<\/em> obituary editor, Peter Keepnews, who had a byline on an obituary published in the paper in May 2026, has made <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fec.gov\/data\/receipts\/individual-contributions\/?contributor_name=Peter+Keepnews\">hundreds<\/a> of campaign contributions to Democrats. Records for some of them list the <em>New York Times<\/em> as his employer, while others list him as not employed. He made a $100 contribution to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee on March 23, 2025, listing the <em>New York Times<\/em> as his employer. Keepnews, who reportedly left the paper in October 2025, declined to be quoted on the record about his contributions, several of which appear to have been made before October 2025.        <\/p>\n<p>A single Federal Reserve staffer, Irfan Murtuza, gave two contributions, totaling $3,000, to the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Michigan, Abdul El-Sayed. An economist at the New York Fed, Keshav Dogra, gave $1,750 to Claire Valdez\u2019s congressional campaign and $1,750 to the campaign of Darializa Avila Chevalier. Another New York Fed staffer, Dolph Haas, gave $2,000 to the U.S. Senate campaign of Texas Democrat James Talarico.<\/p>\n<p>Rachael L. Ross, who lists her employer as Columbia University, gave $245,000 to the Movement Voter PAC, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/georgia-republican-threatens-legal-action-against-defamatory-left-wing-groups-tv-attack-ad\/\" title=\"Georgia Republican Threatens Legal Action Against \u2018Defamatory\u2019 Left-Wing Group\u2019s TV Attack Ad\">left-leaning political action committee<\/a> that funnels money to affiliates of the far-left Working Families Party.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/people.climate.columbia.edu\/users\/profile\/irwin-redlener\">Irwin Redlener<\/a>, a senior adviser at Columbia\u2019s Climate School, gave $50,000 to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, federal records show.<\/p>\n<p>An associate professor of practice at Columbia Teachers College, Amra Sabic-El-Rayess, gave $10,000 to the El-Sayed campaign, according to the federal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fec.gov\/data\/receipts\/individual-contributions\/?contributor_employer=Columbia&#038;two_year_transaction_period=2026&#038;min_date=01%2F01%2F2025&#038;max_date=12%2F31%2F2026\">records<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A Harvard public health professor whose center was singled out by the university\u2019s antisemitism task force as a hotbed of anti-Israel activism, Mary Bassett, gave $5,000 to El-Sayed\u2019s campaign, the Federal Election Commission records <a href=\"https:\/\/docquery.fec.gov\/cgi-bin\/fecimg\/?202610159914956470\">show<\/a>. Another Harvard affiliate, Farrah Ezzeddine, gave $3,500 to El-Sayed, the records <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fec.gov\/data\/receipts\/individual-contributions\/?contributor_employer=Harvard&#038;two_year_transaction_period=2026&#038;min_date=01%2F01%2F2025&#038;max_date=12%2F31%2F2026\">show<\/a>. Lander\u2019s campaign got $3,500 from Antonio Weiss, a fellow at Harvard Kennedy School.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elite donors from NYT, Fed, Harvard, Columbia back Dems<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4157,"featured_media":2697348,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/dr-abdul-el-sayed-and-jemele-hill-in-conversation-at-the-detroit-publi-scaled-e1792633424487.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548,544],"tags":[69845,4188,87448,87449],"class_list":["post-2697347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily","category-the-free-beacon","tag-campaign-finance-2","tag-media","tag-political-donations-2","tag-university-donors"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/dr-abdul-el-sayed-and-jemele-hill-in-conversation-at-the-detroit-publi-scaled-e1792633424487.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2697347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2697347"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2697347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2697351,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2697347\/revisions\/2697351"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2697348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2697347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2697347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2697347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}