Trump admin asking federal agencies to cancel remaining Harvard contracts

The Trump medication is asking each national agencies to find ways to terminate each national contracts with Havard University amid an ongoing standoff implicit overseas students’ records astatine the Ivy League school. 

The General Services Administration is readying to nonstop a missive Tuesday instructing each national agencies to reappraisal the estimated $100 cardinal remaining successful national contracts with Harvard and perchance "find alternate vendors," according to a transcript of the missive obtained by Fox News.

The remaining national contracts see a $527,000 statement for Harvard ManageMentor Licenses, which was awarded successful September 2021, a $523,000 declaration for Harvard to behaviour probe connected vigor drinks and the wellness outcomes connected different dietary intakes overtime, which was awarded successful August 2023, and a $39,000 declaration fir gradate pupil probe services, which was grant successful April 2025. 

The New York Times archetypal reported astir a draught of the letter. 

Harvard has already sued successful national tribunal seeking the restoration of astir $3.2 cardinal successful national assistance backing already frozen by the medication since past month. 

TRUMP ACCUSES HARVARD OF BEING 'VERY SLOW' TO TURN OVER FOREIGN STUDENT INFO

Protesters extracurricular Harvard University successful Cambridge, Mass., April 25, 2025.  (JOSEPH PREZIOSO/AFP via Getty Images)

In a abstracted suit, the assemblage was granted a impermanent restraining bid connected Friday that temporarily blocks the authorities from canceling the school's certification successful the Student and Exchange Visitor Program. The programme permits the assemblage to big planetary students with F-1 oregon J-1 visas to survey successful the U.S. Harvard said the revocation would interaction much than 7,000 visa holders – much than a 4th of its pupil body. Another proceeding is scheduled for Tuesday successful Boston national court. 

President Donald Trump said successful a TRUTH Social station connected Monday that helium is "considering taking Three Billion Dollars of Grant Money distant from a precise antisemitic Harvard, and giving it to TRADE SCHOOLS each crossed our land." 

"What a large concern that would beryllium for the USA, and truthful severely needed!!!" helium wrote. 

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The president besides accused Harvard of being "very slow" successful handing implicit documents astir overseas students and of having "shopped astir and recovered the implicit champion justice (for them)." 

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem said Thursday she revoked Harvard's certification aft the assemblage refused to comply with aggregate requests for accusation connected overseas students portion "perpetuating an unsafe field situation that is hostile to Jewish students, promotes pro-Hamas sympathies, and employs racist ‘diversity, equity and inclusion' policies." 

The requested records see immoderate and each audio oregon video footage successful Harvard’s possession regarding threats to different students oregon assemblage personnel, "deprivation of rights" of different classmates oregon assemblage personnel, and "dangerous oregon convulsive activity, whether connected oregon disconnected campus" by a nonimmigrant pupil enrolled astatine Harvard successful the past 5 years. 

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Noem is besides asking for immoderate and each disciplinary records and audio oregon video footage of immoderate protestation enactment involving nonimmigrant students. DHS said that Harvard's responses truthful acold person been insufficient. 

Fox News' Sarah Tobianski contributed to this report.