The Trump Administration has already frozen $2.2 billion of Harvard’s grant funding.
President Donald Trump threatened Harvard’s tax-exempt status after his administration froze $2.2 billion in the college’s federal grants because it refused to abide by a list of demands related to diversity, equity, and inclusion programs, student activism, and antisemitism.
«Perhaps Harvard should lose its Tax Exempt Status and be Taxed as a Political Entity if it keeps pushing political, ideological, and terrorist inspired/supporting ‘Sickness?'» Trump posted on Truth Social on Tuesday morning.
«Remember, Tax Exempt Status is totally contingent on acting in the PUBLIC INTEREST!»
Newsweek has contacted Harvard’s press office by email for comment.
The hold on Harvard’s funding marks the seventh time Trump’s Administration has taken the step at one of the nation’s most elite colleges, in an attempt to force compliance with Trump’s political agenda. Six of the seven schools are in the Ivy League.
It sets the stage for a showdown between the federal government and America’s oldest and wealthiest university.
With an endowment of more than $50 billion, Harvard is perhaps the best-positioned university to push back on the administration’s pressure campaign.
In a letter to Harvard Friday, Trump’s administration had called for broad government and leadership reforms at the university, as well as changes to its admissions policies.
