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Harvard refuses Trump admin demands to curtail antisemitism & loses over $2B in federal grants

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Harvard University said it will not comply with demands issued by the Trump administration aimed at curtailing antisemitism on campus, resulting in the White House freezing billions in federal contracts and grants. NY Post reporter Katherine Donlevy shares this story.

“No government — regardless of which party is in power — should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue,” the Ivy League school’s president, Alan Garber, wrote in a statement Monday.

The Trump administration quickly shot back at the university’s refusal — announcing a freeze on $2.2 billion in multi-year grants and $60 million in multi-year contracts mere hours later.

“Harvard’s statement today reinforces the troubling entitlement mindset that is endemic in our nation’s most prestigious universities and colleges – that federal investment does not come with the responsibility to uphold civil rights laws,” President Trump’s Joint Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism said in a statement to The Post.

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