Trump Administration tries to reduce federal contracts of 100 million US dollars for Harvard
Washington (AP) -The Trump government asked the federal authorities to terminate contracts with Harvard University worth around 100 million US dollars on Tuesday, which reinforces the president’s collision with the oldest and richest university in the country.
The government has already canceled more than 2.6 billion US dollars in federal research grants for the IVY League School, which has returned the administration’s demands for changes in several of their guidelines.
A letter that was sent on Tuesday the General Services Administration, which monitors the contract and real estate for the federal government, instructed agencies to review contracts with the university and to apply for alternative agreements.
The New York Times reported on the letter for the first time.
US President Donald Trump scolded himself against Harvard and described it as a breeding site of liberalism and anti -Semitism. On April 21, the school submitted a lawsuit for the administration’s request for changes to the management, the government and the university admission guidelines. Since then, the administration has shortened the federal financing of the school, lowered the enrollment of international students and threatened its tax exemption status.
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The contracts include scientific research, executive training
The administration has investigated around 30 contracts in nine agencies that are to be checked for cancellation, according to an administrative officer who was not justified to speak publicly and presented details about the condition of anonymity.
US President Donald Trump speaks during the 157th National Memorial Day Compliance on the Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia, May 26, 2025 (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
According to a high -ranking administrative official who spoke about the condition of anonymity, describing internal considerations, the contracts spoke a total of around $ 100 million. The contracts include the training of executives for civil servants from the Ministry of Homeland Security, the research of health results related to Energy Drinks and a contract for student research services for doctoral students.
Agencies with contracts that are classified as critical are instructed not to stop them immediately, but a plan for the transition to a provider other than Harvard.
The letter only applies to federal contracts with Harvard and not to his remaining research grants.
Trump threatens to give Harvard’s financial resources for commercial schools
Trump took on social media in Harvard at the weekend and threatened to reduce additional scholarships of 3 billion US dollars and to give them to the commercial schools in the United States. He did not explain which grants he had referred to or how they could be assigned.
The US President also accused Harvard of refusing to release the names of his foreign students. In a new line of attack, he argued that the students’ home countries do not pay anything for their training and that some of the countries are “not friendly to the United States at all”.
International students have no financial support from the federal government, but Harvard also offers foreign and domestic students their own help.
“We are still waiting for Harvard’s foreign student lists, so that we can find that after a ridiculous expenditure of billions of dollars, how many radicalized insane and troublemaker should not be left back to our country,” said Trump on social media.
It was not clear what the President referred to. The Federal Government already has access to visa information and other records of foreign students to Harvard and other universities.
Anti-Israel demonstrators gather together on Cambridge in order to protest against Harvard’s attitude to the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza and to show support for the Palestinian people outside of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Joseph Prezioso/AFP). (Joseph Prezioso/AFP)
The Department of Homeland Security has required Harvard to transfer a wealth of files in connection with its foreign students, including disciplinary documents and records in connection with “dangerous or violent activities”.
Harvard said that it was met, but the agency said her reaction had fallen briefly and has withdrawn the ability of the university to register foreign students. A federal judge in Boston temporarily blocked the move after Harvard was sued.
Answer other nations
The Japanese government said on Tuesday that it was looking for opportunities to help Harvard’s foreign students. Minister of Education Toshiko ABE said reporters said that she should ask Japanese universities to take measures to support international students.
The top school of the University of Tokyo, Japan, consider to temporarily accept some Harvard students who are hit by the Trump sanctions.
Universities in other countries have taken similar steps, including two in Hong Kong that recently expanded invitations to Harvard students.
On Harvard’s campus, law student Carson Durdel said that he was proud of the university because he was against Trump. He said intellectual independence has historically made the United States strong.
“It is the reason why we are like a beacon for the rest of the world,” he said. “I think that to undermine these things, cut these things is not just a bad short -term view, but a terrible long -term view.”
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