The government coalition slammed Harvard in a letter on Tuesday for failing to confront “pervasive race discrimination and antisemitic harassment.”
President Donald Trump’s administration said it will terminate US$450 million ($587 million) in grants to Harvard University, a day after the school’s president criticised the government for threatening key freedoms.
The latest cuts, announced by the Joint Task Force to Combat Antisemitism on Tuesday, are on top of more than US$2.2 billion in federal funds that were frozen last month. Harvard is suing the Trump administration over demands the government has made over its academic and disciplinary policies. President Alan Garber on Monday wrote to Education Secretary Linda McMahon to deny her allegation that the school has a partisan political bias, warning that government “overreach” is threatening key freedoms.
