Trump Admin Cancels $2.3 Billion In Funding To Harvard

Will Harvard learn a lesson? Do they even understand what the lesson is?

“No government—regardless of which party is in power—should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue.” – President Alan Garber https://t.co/6cQQpcJVTd

— Harvard University (@Harvard) April 14, 2025

Probably not

Harvard rejects Trump demands, gets hit by $2.3 billion funding freeze

Harvard on Monday rejected numerous demands from the Trump administration that it said would cede control of the school to a conservative government that portrays universities as dangerously leftist.

Within hours of Harvard taking its stand, the administration of President Donald Trump announced it was freezing $2.3 billion in federal funding to the school.

The funding freeze comes after the Trump administration said last month it was reviewing $9 billion in federal contracts and grants to Harvard as part of a crackdown on what it says is antisemitism that erupted on college campuses during pro-Palestinian protests in the past 18 months.

On Monday, a Department of Education task force on combating antisemitism accused America’s oldest university of having a “troubling entitlement mindset that is endemic in our nation’s most prestigious universities and colleges – that federal investment does not come with the responsibility to uphold civil rights laws.”

The exchange escalates the high-stakes dispute between the the Trump administration and some of the world’s richest universities that has raised concerns about speech and academic freedoms.

Does Harvard actually want to die on the hill of defending Jew hatred? Apparently so. And the lesson is that private entities shouldn’t be taking large sums of government money if they do not want the government to have a say in their operations.

Harvard President Alan Garber wrote in a public letter on Monday that demands made by the Department of Education last week would allow the federal government “to control the Harvard community” and threaten the school’s “values as a private institution devoted to the pursuit, production, and dissemination of knowledge.”

Of, course, again, those operations are Jew hatred and supporting a US designated terrorist group. Defending students and staff who are calling for killing Jews and Americans. Who are calling to destroy Israel and America. Is that the knowledge Harvard is defending?

And, yeah, the federal government shouldn’t be giving private institutions taxpayer money, but, hey, that’s what happened thanks to Democrats in Congress working with Democrats at schools like Harvard. Kinda backfired, eh?

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