The Trump administration has reduced additional $ 450 million in federal subsidies to Harvard University, intensifying its repression of what it calls “firm and discrimination of virtue” on elite campus. | Photo credit: AP Photo/Steven Senne
The administration of President Donald Trump is reducing another $ 450 million in subsidies to Harvard University a day after the Ivy League school delayed the government’s accusations that it is a seedlings or liberalism and anti -Semitism.
In a letter to Harvard on Tuesday, a federal anti -Semitism task force said it will lose subsidies of eight federal agencies in addition to $ 2.2 billion that was previously frozen by the Trump administration.
The letter said it has become a “culture broth for the firm and discrimination of virtue” and faces a “steep battle and uphill” to claim its legacy as a place of academic excellence.
“There is a dark problem on the Harvard campus and, by prioritizing the appeasement of responsibility, institutional leaders have lost the claim of the taxpayers’ support school,” said the letter.
It was signed by officials of the Department of Education, Health and Human Services and the Administration of General Services.
Hours after the last cuts on Tuesday, Harvard presented a legal challenge to several sanctions imposed by the Trump administration in recent weeks. It was presented as an update of the April demand of the university that is found to block the initial freezing of $ 2.2 billion.
Harvard has faced increasing sanctions from the White House after becoming the first American university to openly challenge the government’s demands to limit pro-Palestinian activism and end the practices of diversity, equity and inclusion.
Trump, a Republican, has said that Hey Harvard loses his existing tax status, and the National Security Department has been to revoke the school’s election to organize foreign students.
Last week, the Department of Education said that Harvard will not receive new federal subsidies until it meets government demands.
The Trump administration has demanded that Harvard make broad leadership changes, review its admission policies and audit its faculty and the student body to ensure that the campus is home to many points of view.
The demands are part of a pressure campaign aimed at several other high profile universities. The administration has reduced money to conferences, including Columbia University, the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Cornell, which seek compliance with Trump’s agenda.
In his amended lawsuit, Harvard said that much of the funds that initially frozen now has ended up, apparently without hope to restore it.
A letter from May 6 of the National Institute of Health notified Harvard that subsidies were being reduced in accusations of anti -Semitism of the campus. He said that subsidies are generally suspended awaiting the opportunity to take corrective measures, but “there is no corrective action possible here,” according to the demand.
Harvard then received similar letters from the Department of Defense, Department of Energy, Department of Agriculture and other agencies, according to the demand. You are looking to have those cuts in deception.
The president of Harvard, Alan Garber, played the government accusations in a letter on Monday, saying that Harvard is not partisan and has tasks to eliminate anti -Semitism on campus. He insisted that Harvard complies with the law, qualifying federal sanctions an “illegal attempt to control fundamental aspects of our university’s operations.” The government letter on Tuesday said it has repeatedly failed to address racial discrimination and anti -Semitism on campus. He cited the decision of the Supreme Court 2023 that demolished the use of the race by Harvard in the admission process, together with a recent internal report in Harvard that details cases of anti -Semitic harassment.
Posted on May 14, 2025
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