The Trump administration introduced on Monday that it is going to be reviewing almost $9 billion in “multiyear grant commitments” to Harvard College and its associates.
“Harvard’s failure to protect students on campus from anti-Semitic discrimination – all while promoting divisive ideologies over free inquiry – has put its reputation in serious jeopardy. Harvard can right these wrongs and restore itself to a campus dedicated to academic excellence and truth-seeking, where all students feel safe on its campus,” Training Secretary Linda McMahon mentioned within the assertion.
The Division of Training, Well being and Human Companies, and the U.S. Basic Companies Administration made the joint announcement in service of President Donald Trump’s Joint Job Power to Fight Anti-Semitism.
Below the guise of ending anti-semitism, the Trump administration has focused 10 universities for comparable federal investigations, together with Columbia College. The assaults have led increased schooling establishments to pledge to take away protections for marginalized teams whereas cracking down on speech and activism on campus.
In the meantime, Trump’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement has been disappearing college students and former college students concerned in pro-Palestinian protests, that are protected by the First Modification—making even some right-wing bigots squirm.
The legality of Trump and co-president Elon Musk utilizing the federal purse to get what they need is regarding at finest. Trump has leveraged the complicity of a GOP-controlled Congress to extort U.S. allies and punish his political opponents—increased schooling establishments are solely his newest sufferer.
