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Trump vs Harvard: University sues US President for cutting 2 billion dollar funds

Jyotirmay Kaushal by Jyotirmay Kaushal
April 22, 2025
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Trump vs Harvard: University sues US President for cutting 2 billion dollar funds
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The clash between the US government and Harvard University is now fast heating up with the institution now going to the courts to take on the Trump administartion. Harvard University has filed a lawsuit against the Trump admin claiming that its freezing of federal grants worth billions of dollars is unlawful.

Its president, Alan M Garber, announced the action on Monday in a letter to the university community which said the $2bn funding freeze would hamper critical disease research.

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Donald Trump had long been looking to curb the Universities that he believes had been backing anti Trump and anti state agendas, while running full fledged anti Semitic campaigns. Trump opines that universities should not be allowed to conduct such activities while being funded by the state simultaneously. Harvard, the world’s richest university, last week rejected a list of demands that the Trump administration said was designed to curb diversity initiatives and fight anti-semitism at the school.

In response to the lawsuit, the White House said the “gravy train of federal assistance” was coming to an end.

Funding cuts have also been implemented at other elite universities, and a new government anti-semitism task force has identified at least 60 universities for review.

President Donald Trump has accused universities of failing to protect Jewish students during last year’s campus protests against the war in Gaza and US support for Israel.

In Monday’s letter, Mr Garber said: “The consequences of the government’s overreach will be severe and long-lasting.”

Studies on pediatric cancer, Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease would be affected, he wrote.

“In recent weeks, the federal government has launched a broad attack on the critical funding partnerships that make this invaluable research possible,” the school’s lawsuit said.

It said the withholding of federal funding violated Harvard’s constitutional rights and was being used as “leverage to gain control of academic decisionmaking at Harvard”.

The Trump administration has signalled that another $1bn of federal funding could be suspended. Harvard receives about $9bn in total annually, which is mostly spent on research.

Harvard’s tax exemption status and its ability to enroll international students could also be under threat.

Separately, the Trump administration has targeted other private Ivy League institutions including suspending $1bn at Cornell University and $510 million at Brown University. Federal dollars also play an outsized role there in funding new scientific breakthroughs.

Others such as Columbia University, the epicentre of pro-Palestinian campus protests last year, have agreed to some demands after $400 million of federal funds was threatened.

The demands to Harvard included agreeing to government-approved external audits of the university’s curriculum as well as hiring and admission data.

In response, Harvard released a blistering letter rejecting what it described as a “takeover” by the federal government.

Former US President Barack Obama, a Harvard alum, has said he supported the university, calling the cash freeze unlawful.

The White House responded Monday night in a statement.

“The gravy train of federal assistance to institutions like Harvard, which enrich their grossly overpaid bureaucrats with tax dollars from struggling American families is coming to an end.

“Taxpayer funds are a privilege, and Harvard fails to meet the basic conditions required to access that privilege.”

Polling by Gallup last summer suggested that confidence in higher education had been falling over time among Americans of all political backgrounds.

That was partly driven, the survey said, by a growing belief that universities push a political agenda. The decline was particularly steep among Republicans.

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Dreaming of a reality that is a dream. A scribbler in the current incarnation with an avid interest in global affairs.

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