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Thursday, September 24, 2026

Straws in the Wind - Part 474

From the Yale Daily News: Yale spent $26.2 million on outside legal fees — a 46 percent increase from the previous period — in the fiscal year ending June 2025, which includes the first five months of the second Trump administration. The approximate $8.3 million jump from the $17.9 million spent in fiscal year 2024 is the largest increase on record for Yale, according to publicly available tax filings dating back to 2001 — though the University’s spending on legal fees has trended upward over the last five years. The $26.2 million figure corresponds to the period from July 1, 2024 to June 30, 2025, the most recent one with public disclosures available, and comes from Form 990 disclosures filed in May 2026...

Yale’s lobbying spending has also skyrocketed during the second Trump administration. After Trump’s 2024 election victory, [Yale President] McInnis began a lobbying push to address declining trust in universities and oppose policies that could cut Yale’s funding...

Full story at https://yaledailynews.com/articles/yale-increased-legal-spending-amid-trump-administration-inquiries.

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