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Trump says Harvard will lose its tax-exempt status

Akayla Gardner and Brooke Sutherland / Bloomberg
Akayla Gardner and Brooke Sutherland / Bloomberg • 3 min read
Trump says Harvard will lose its tax-exempt status
Conservatives have targeted Harvard and other elite universities in recent years over accusations of ideological bias. Trump and other Republicans have accused the institutions of promoting liberal agendas and so-called “wokeness.” Photo: Bloomberg
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President Donald Trump declared that Harvard University would lose its tax-exempt status, a designation that has allowed the school to avoid paying levies on its revenue under a classification for educational institutions.

Trump posted the announcement after weeks of threatening an Internal Revenue Service review of the Ivy League's tax-free treatment.

"We are going to be taking away Harvard's Tax Exempt Status. It's what they deserve!" Trump wrote early Friday morning.

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