president Donald Trump On Tuesday, Harvard University proposed that it would lose its tax-free status and should be considered a “political entity.”
“Perhaps Harvard should be taxed as a political entity if he loses his tax-free status and continues to push himself as a political entity, ideological, and terrorist-inspired, “support/support the disease,” Trump wrote in The True Society.
“Remember that tax-free status is entirely conditional on public interest actions!” the president added.
Trump administrators will cut more than $2.2 billion in funding to Harvard after-school.
Protesters gathered outside Harvard University to show their disapproval of actions taken under the Trump administration on April 1, 2025. (Brett Phelps/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)
The Trump administration said Monday it has frozen more than $2.2 billion in grants and $60 million contracts. Harvard University After the agency refused to comply with a set of terms set by the Ministry of Education, Ministry of Health and Human Services last week.
Framed as a “expanding list of demands” by Harvard University’s leadership, the administration called on universities to comply with “merit-based” employment and admission practices and to reform recruitment of international students, preventing them from hostile to American values and institutions engraved in the US Constitution and declaration of independence.”
Other requested reforms include ensuring “diversity in admission and employment perspectives,” changes to programs due to “a record of anti-Semitism or other bias,” and cancellation of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies and initiatives.
In an April 11 letter to Harvard leaders, Trump administration officials said the U.S. government “investment is not qualified” and “Harvard relies on supporting federal civil rights laws, making sense only if Harvard cultivates an environment that creates intellectual creativity and academic rigor.
President Donald Trump will speak at the Cabinet meeting held at the White House on April 10, 2025 in Washington, DC (Anna Money Maker/Getty Images)
In a statement Monday, Harvard University President Alan Gerber said the terms of the agreement “reveal its intentions are not to cooperate with us. Dealing with anti-Semitism In a collaborative and constructive way. ”
Harvard will not comply with Trump administrators’ requests amid the threat of cutting federal funds
“While some of the demands outlined by the government are aimed at fighting anti-Semitism, the majority represent direct government regulations of Harvard’s intellectual conditions,” Gerber wrote.
He argued that the conditions required a “audit” of student organizations, faculty and staff, and that they were “targeted for ideological views” in order to reduce the power of certain students, faculty and administrators.
Protesters will gather outside Harvard University on April 1, 2025. (Brett Phelps/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)
“A government in power should not direct what private universities can teach, whom they can recognize and hire, and which areas of learning and research can be pursued,” Gerber wrote.
Harvard’s response was praised by Democrats, including the former President Barack Obama Massachusetts Governor Maura Healy chuckled at the rage of Ivy League schools when conservatives were given a $53.2 billion donation.
“There’s an alternative: Refusing taxpayer money,” Hillsdale University, a private Christian facility in Michigan, was posted on X.
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“Refund Time,” R-Texas Rep. Brandon Gill wrote in X.
Richard Grenell, a longtime Trump alliance who served in multiple management roles, had a message to Harvard, saying, “If you don’t want taxpayer strings, don’t ask for taxpayer money.”
“You ruined my degree with your left-most activity,” writes Grenell. “As a Harvard graduate, I support the federal government that enforces the laws you violate.”
