Washington (AP) – The administration of President Donald Trump is reducing another $ 450 million in subsidies to Harvard University one day after the Ivy League school delayed against government accusations that it is a seedlings of liberalism and anti -Semitism.
In a letter to Harvard on Tuesday, a federal work group anti -Semitism said that Harvard will lose subsidies of eight federal agencies in addition to $ 2.2 billion that the Trump administration frozen previously.
The letter said that Harvard has become a “culture broth for the signage and discrimination of virtue” and faces an “steep battle and uphill” to claim its legacy as a place of academic excellence.
“There is a dark problem on the Harvard campus, and by prioritizing the appeasement on responsibility, institutional leaders have lost the claim of the taxpayers’ support school,” said the letter.
It was signed by officials of the Department of Education, Health and Human Services and the Administration of General Services.
University officials did not immediately comment on the letter.
Harvard has faced increasing sanctions from the White House after becoming the first American university to openly challenge the government’s demands to limit pro-Palestinian activism and end the practices of diversity, equity and inclusion.
Trump, a Republican, has said he wants Harvard to lose his tax exemption status, and the National Security Department has threatened to revoke the eligibility of the school to house foreign students.
Last week, the Department of Education said that Harvard will not receive new federal subsidies until it meets government demands.
The Trump administration has demanded that Harvard make broad leadership changes, review its admission policies and audit its faculty and the student body to ensure that the campus is home to many points of view.
The demands are part of a pressure campaign aimed at several other high profile universities. The administration has reduced money to universities such as Columbia University, the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Cornell, seeking compliance with the Trump agenda.
Harvard is demanding to block the freezing of federal funds.
The president of Harvard, Alan Garber, disputed the government accusations in a letter on Monday, saying that Harvard is not partisan and has taken measures to eliminate anti -Semitism on campus. He insisted that Harvard complies with the law, qualifying federal sanctions an “illegal attempt to control fundamental aspects of our university’s operations.”
The government letter on Tuesday said that Harvard has repeatedly failed to address racial discrimination and anti -Semitism on campus. He cited the 2023 decision of the Supreme Court that demolished the use of the Harvard breed in the admission process, together with a recent internal report in Harvard that details cases of anti -Semitic harassment.
