Trump says he may shift $3 billion in Harvard grants to trade schools

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President Trump connected Monday escalated his attacks connected Harvard University, saying he's considering giving $3 cardinal the Ivy League instauration receives successful assistance wealth to commercialized schools crossed the U.S. 

"I americium 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!!!" Mr. Trump said successful a post connected Truth Social. Trade schools absorption connected teaching applicable skills for circumstantial trades oregon professions. 

It wasn't instantly wide however Mr. Trump would displacement the money, and if the grants travel from the Harvard backing that his medication has already frozen.

Mr. Trump issued the caller menace aft helium moved past week to block Harvard from enrolling planetary students and has taken different steps to freeze billions of dollars successful Harvard's national funding, arsenic helium claims the instauration has not done capable to code anti-semitism connected campus. 

Harvard didn't instantly respond to a petition for comment. 

The assemblage filed a suit past period successful effect to Mr. Trump's earlier determination to portion it of $2.2 cardinal successful national funding, alleging that his enactment was unlawful.

Last week, Harvard filed a 2nd suit implicit the Trump administration's attempt to barroom it from enrolling overseas students. Harvard President Alan Garber had called it a "revocation" that "continues a bid of authorities actions to retaliate against Harvard for our refusal to surrender our world independency and to taxable to the national government's amerciable assertion of power implicit our curriculum, our faculty, and our pupil body."

A national justice later temporarily blocked the Trump medication from preventing Harvard from enrolling overseas students. The ruling was criticized by the White House.

"The American radical elected President Trump – not random section judges with their ain wide docket – to tally the country," White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson said past week. "These unelected judges person nary close to halt the Trump Administration from exercising their rightful power implicit migration argumentation and nationalist information policy."

Mr. Trump has besides said helium wants to strip Harvard of its tax-exempt status arsenic helium attempts to exert power implicit the university's policies, including halting Harvard's diversity, equity and inclusion programs and changing its hiring practices. The Trump medication besides wants to audit the pupil assemblage and module for "viewpoint diversity."

The White House has besides taken purpose astatine different high-profile universities, withdrawing national backing from Columbia University, the University of Pennsylvania and Cornell University, successful what is being seen an effort to coerce them into complying with the Trump administration's agenda.

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