President Donald Trump On Tuesday, he suggested that Harvard University should lose the status of tax exempt and consider himself a “political entity”, the day after his administration attracted $ 2.2 billion in Ivy League’s school.
“Maybe Harvard should lose tax status and be taxed as a political entity if he continues to push political, ideological and terrorists inspired/support” illness? “, Trump wrote about the truth of Social.
“Remember, the status of the exempt tax is completely convinced of acting in public interest!” The president added.
Trump administrator reduces more than $ 2.2 billion funding at Harvard after school defying demands
Protesters gather in front of Harvard University to show their disapproval of actions taken under Trump’s administration on April 1, 2025. (Brett Phelps/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)
Trump’s administration on Monday announced that she frozen more than $ 2.2 billion in grants and $ 60 million in contract Harvard University After the institution refused to adhere to the set of conditions established last week by the Department of Education, the Department of Health and Human Services and the General Services Administration.
Managed as a “List spread” by Harvard’s leadership, the administration has asked the University to change to adhere to “based on the merit of” employment and receipt practice and reform of his employment of international students to “prevent an acceptance of enemies of enemies with US values and institutions written in the US Constitution, including Terrorism, including Terrorism Terrorism, including terrorism, including terrorism, including terrorism, including terrorism.
Other requested reforms included securing “diversity of views in reception and employment,” a change in programs with “terrible records of anti -Semitism or other bias”, and the abolition of policies and initiatives for diversity, equality and inclusion (dei).
In a letter to the Harvard leadership, April 11, the Officers of Trump’s Administration said that “investing in the US Government is not right” and “depends on Harvard that supports the Federal Civil Rights Acts, which only makes sense if Harvard encourages the type of environment that creates intellectual creativity and scientific strictness, both anti -tethered.”
President Donald Trump speaks during a cabinet meeting at the White House 10 April 2025. In Washington, DC (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
In a statement on Monday, Harvard University President Alan Garber said the terms of the agreement set “clear that the intention is not to work with us to deal with anti -Semitism in a cooperative and constructive way. ”
“Although some of the demands that the Government emphasized are intended to fight anti -Semitism, most are a direct government regulation of intellectual conditions at Harvard,” Garber wrote.
He stated that the conditions require “an audit of” student body, attitudes and staff of “views” and to reduce the power of certain students, teachers and administrators of “targeted because of their ideological views”.
Protesters gather in front of Harvard University on April 1, 2025. (Brett Phelps/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)
“No Government – no matter what the party is in power – should not dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can recognize and hire, and what areas of study and examinations can continue,” Garber wrote.
Harvard’s answer was praised by Democrats, including the former President Barack Obama and Massachusetts Government Maura Healey, while conservatives made fun of the anger of Ivy League School -As, with respect to their $ 53.2 billion donor.
“There is another way: reject taxpayers’ money,” Hillsdale College, a private Christian institution in Michigan, published on X.
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“It’s time for defends,” Ambassador Brandon Gill wrote in X., R-Texas, and taxed that $ 50 billion. ”
Richard Grenell, a longtime Trump ally who served in several administrative roles, had a message at Harvard: “You are not looking for a taxpayer’s money if you do not want the wires of taxpayers.”
“You destroyed my diploma with your ultimate left activism,” Grenell wrote. “As a graduate at Harvard, I support the federal governments that implement the laws you violate.”