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Schooling Secretary declares Harvard ineligible for federal grants.
The Trump administration criticises Harvard for alleged anti-Semitism tolerance.
Federal funding freeze contains $2.2 billion for Harvard and $9 billion complete.
United States:
President Donald Trump’s training secretary stated Monday that Harvard will not obtain federal grants, escalating an ongoing battle with the distinguished college because it challenges the funding cuts in court docket.
The Trump administration has for weeks locked horns with Harvard and different greater training establishments over claims they tolerate anti-Semitism on their campuses — threatening their budgets, tax-exempt standing and enrollment of overseas college students.
Schooling Secretary Linda McMahon, in a letter despatched to Harvard’s president and posted on-line, stated that the college “ought to not search GRANTS from the federal authorities, since none might be offered.”
Expensive @Harvard: pic.twitter.com/XmMimXfkX0
— Secretary Linda McMahon (@EDSecMcMahon) May 5, 2025
She alleged that Harvard has “didn’t abide by its authorized obligations, its moral and fiduciary duties, its transparency obligations, and any semblance of educational rigor.”
Harvard — routinely ranked among the many world’s high universities — has drawn Trump’s ire by refusing to conform along with his calls for that it settle for authorities oversight of its admissions, hiring practices and political slant.
That prompted the Trump administration to in mid-April freeze $2.2 billion in federal funding, with a complete of $9 billion below assessment.
McMahon, a former wrestling government, stated that her letter “marks the top of recent grants for the College.”
Harvard is the wealthiest US college with an endowment valued at $53.2 billion in 2024.
The most recent transfer comes as Trump and his White Home crack down on US universities on a number of fronts, justified as a response to what they are saying is uncontrolled anti-Semitism and a have to reverse range applications geared toward addressing historic oppression of minorities.
The administration has threatened funding freezes and different punishments, prompting issues over declining tutorial freedom.
It has additionally moved to revoke visas and deport overseas college students concerned within the protests, accusing them of supporting Palestinian group Hamas, whose October 7, 2023 assault on Israel provoked the struggle.
Trump’s claims about range faucet into long-standing conservative complaints that US college campuses are too liberal, shutting out right-wing voices and favoring minorities.
(Aside from the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV employees and is revealed from a syndicated feed.)
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