President Trump reportedly plans to pull an additional billion dollars in funding from Harvard University, just a week after freezing $2.2 billion in multi-year federal grants over the Ivy League school’s refusal to make changes to curb alleged antisemitism and overhaul admissions policies.
Following the week-long escalating dispute, sources told The Wall Street Journal that the Trump administration is looking to withdraw an additional billion dollars from the school’s funding for health research.
The retaliation comes after Harvard released a lengthy list of demands from the Trump administration that White House officials had thought would remain private, according to the sources.
Trump officials were planning to treat Harvard more leniently than Columbia University, but changed course after the nation’s most prominent university’s president publicized the letter’s contents, including requirements that Harvard allow federal-government oversight of admissions, hiring and the ideology of students and staff — which were a nonstarter, according to the report.
Harvard President Alan Garber addressed the letter from Trump’s new Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism, noting the requests made clear that “the intention is not to work with us to address antisemitism in a cooperative and constructive manner,” according to the Journal.
Garber added: “We have informed the administration through our legal counsel that we will not accept their proposed agreement.”
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