The Trump administration froze $ 2.2 billion in subsidies to Harvard University on Monday after the Elite University announced that it would not meet the demands for reforms to stop anti -Semitism and other forms of discrimination.
As Breitbart News reported:
Harvard University revealed that it will not comply with the Trump administration’s demand list so that the University makes changes in its policies regarding hiring, government, students’ admissions and anti -Semitism.
In a letter issued on Monday, the University’s lawyers criticized an earlier letter from the Trump administration for ignoring Harvard efforts “to make” changes in the policies of use of their campus “, to address and combat the security security campus of the hatred campus and security of the campus.
The University added that the demands of the administration “invade the university freedoms recognized by the Supreme Court.
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In the letter of Josh Gruenbaum, the federal action commissioner; Sean Keveney, the interim general advisor of the Department of Health and Human Services of the United States, and Thomas Wheeler, the interim general advisor of the United States Department of Education, some of the demands required that Harvard “make a significant government reform” in August 2025.
Other demands required that Harvard “adopt and implement contracting policies based on merit, and cease all preferences based on race, color, religion, sex or national origin that its hiring, promotion, compensation, related practices between the faculty.
“In August 2025, the university must reform its recruitment, detection and admission of international students to avoid admitting hostile students to US values and institutions registered in the Constitution of the United States and the declaration of independence, including reading students’ demand.
In response, the Trump administration has suspended about $ 2.2 billion almost $ 9 billion in federal subsidies at risk.
He Harvard CrimsonThe newspaper led by students of the University, reported:
The Trump administration arrested $ 2.2 billion in subsidies of several years and $ 60 million in Harvard contracts on his decision today to reject the demands of the White House, a dramatic escalation in his crusade against the University.
The measure occurred only a few hours after Harvard president Alan M. Garber ’76, issued a resounding rebuke of the Trump administration demands, calling them coercive and beyond the federal authority.
The federal anti -Semitism task force wrote that Garber’s decision was a clear sign that Harvard was refusing to “commit to significant change” to address anti -Semitism on campus.
Harvard is the last university of the Ivy League in being scrutiny of the Trump administration, and one of the universities throughout the country that are being observed closely by a federal work force against semitism. One of the others, the University of Columbia, decided to meet the demands of the administration instead of risking its federal financing.
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