President Trump instructed Secretary of Education Linda McMahon to extract at least $500 million from Harvard University as a condition of resuming $2.4 billion in federal grants.
“We want nothing less than $500 million from Harvard. Don’t negotiate, Linda. They’ve been very bad,” Trump said.
Earlier this year, Trump stripped the Cambridge, Mass. school of its billions of dollars in federal funding because he said the school promoted DEI and that it discriminated against Jewish faculty and students for not providing enough protection from hate.
In July, the president said that Harvard ‘wants to settle’ after seeing Columbia University get all of its grant funding back in exchange for a $200 billion fine to resolve civil rights violations.
The Education Department has sought various policy changes from Harvard, including stricter rules against antisemitism and the sharing of foreign student information for federal vetting.
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