Harvard refused to accept far-reaching policy changes ordered by the White House, President Donald Trump threatened to snatch Harvard for his tax-free situation.
Trump said Harvard “should” lose his tax exemption status and be taxed as a political entity “if the elite college does not agree to change its demands for the college how it runs, which will include students selection and rights for professors.
The tax-free situation “is completely casual on acting in public interest,” he said in The Post on Truth Social.
In a letter to the students and faculty, Harvard President Alan Garber vowed to convince the government and said the school “would not talk about its freedom or its constitutional rights.”
Last Friday, the Trump administration sent a letter to the Harvard University-an institution over 140 years compared to the US-asked to end its diversity, equity, and recruitment, entry and initiative to include the initiative to include in programs. The letter also asked the university to reduce the power of students and faculty members in university affairs and demanded systematic screening of student organizations and international students – a step aimed at reducing antisementism in the campus.
The demands of the administration include sharing the data hired with the government and bringing them to an external party to ensure that each academic department “approach is diverse.” Failure in compliance can result in loss of billions in federal funds, the administration warned.
Harvard responded rapidly, and until Monday, the US’s wealthiest university unevenly rejected the demands of the administration. The institution said that it would not follow the demands issued by the Trump administration as they “are in violation of the first amendment,” and “” attack the freedom of the university recognized by the Supreme Court. ”
On Monday, Trump’s Joint Task Force replied with a statement to combat the anti-Jewishism that in addition to the freeze at $ 60 million in government contracts, $ 2.2 billion in multi-year grants would be held.