Harvard University has hired the lobbying firm Ballard Partners to help address investigations into campus anti-Semitism and threats to tax its $53 billion endowment. The move comes as Harvard's president, Alan Garber, plans to take a more diplomatic approach to the second Trump term. Ballard Partners founder Brian Ballard, who has close ties to Trump, will lobby on behalf of Harvard. The university is concerned about ongoing congressional probes into campus anti-Semitism, proposals to increase taxes on university endowments, and threats to cut research funding.