Here Are the Many Ways Trump Is Attacking Harvard: QuickTake

June 6, 2025, 5:37 PM UTC

In its campaign to pressure elite US colleges to make a wide range of policy changes, the administration of President Donald Trump has come down hardest on Harvard University.

Framing its actions as an initiative to fight campus antisemitism and enforce civil rights protections, the government has frozen more than $2.6 billion in research funding for the Ivy League school and moved to cancel the last remaining $100 million or so in federal contracts. It has also tried to bar the university from enrolling international students and prevent foreign nationals from entering the US to study at the college — ...

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