President Donald Trump suggested Tuesday that Harvard University should lose its tax exemption status and be considered a “political entity”, one day after its administration obtained $ 2.2 billion in funds from the IVY League school.
“Maybe Harvard should lose his tax exempt from taxes and be taxed as a political entity if he continues to press political, ideololic and terrorist support?” “Trump in social truth.
“Remember, the tax -free state depends totally on acting in public interest!” The president added.
Trump administrator cuts more than $ 2.2b in Harvard funds after the school challenges the demands
The protesters meet outside Harvard University to show their disapproval of shares of shares under the Trump administration on April 1, 2025. (Brett Phelps/The Boston Globe through Getty Images)
The Trump administration said Monday that it was freezing more than $ 2.2 billion in subsidies and $ 60 million in contracts to Harvard University after the institution refused to comply with a set of terms established by the Department of Education and Human Service.
Framed as “an expansion list of demands” for Harvard’s leadership, the administration asked the university to make changes to adhere to the practices of hiring and admission of “based on merit” and reforming their recruitment of international students to “avoid admitting hostile students to the US values and institutions registered in the Constitution and the declaration of independence of independence, including students, including students Support students or terrorism or antiestiles. ”
Other requested reforms included guaranteeing the “diversity of the point of view in admissions and hiring”, changing programs with “atrocious records of anti -Semitism or other bias”, and discontinuing diversity, equation and initiatives.
In the Charter of April 11 to Harvard leadership, Trump administration officials said the United States government “investment is not entitled” and “depends on Harvard defending federal laws on civil rights, and only makes sense if Harvard Foldectual of Envvestuly, which is antithetic to ideological capture.”
President Donald Trump speaks during a cabinet meeting at the White House on April 10, 2025 in Washington, DC (Anna MoneyMaker/Getty images)
In a statement on Monday, the president of Harvard University, Alan Garber, said that the terms of agreement make it clear that the intention is not to work with us to address anti -Semitism in a cooperative and constructive way. ”
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“Although some of the demands described by the Government aim to combat anti -Semitism, the representative of the direct majority of government regulation of intellectual conditions in Harvard,” Garber wrote.
He argued that the terms required an “audit” of the student body, teachers and the “views” of the staff and to reduce the power of certain students, teachers and administrators “attacked because or their idological views.”
The protesters meet outside Harvard University on April 1, 2025. (Brett Phelps/The Boston Globe through Getty Images)
“No government, regardless of what party is in power, should dictate that private universities can teach, who can admit and hire, and what areas of study and research can,” Garber wrote.
Harvard’s response was praised by the Democrats, including former President Barack Obama and the governor of Massachusetts Maura Healey, while the conservatives made fun of the outrage of the Ivy League school given their endowment of $ 53.2 billion.
“There is another way: rejecting taxpayers money,” he published in X. Hillsdale College, a private Christian institution in Michigan.
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“Time to discourage,” wrote representative Brandon Gill, a Texas Republican, in X. “and taxes on the endowment of $ 50 billion.”
Richard Grenelll, a former Trump ally who served in multiple administration roles, had a message for Harvard: “Do not request taxpayers money if you do not want taxpayers’ strings.”
“You have ruined my title with your extreme left activism,” Grenell wrote. “As a Harvard graduate, I support the laws of application of the federal government that you violate.”