Wednesday, 30 April 2025

Harvard SUES Trump Administration For Cutting Off Federal Funding

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Harvard University has just launched a lawsuit against the Trump administration for freezing $2.2 billion in federal funding.

Earlier this month, the Trump administration decided to cut off Harvard’s funding due to the university’s refusal to address antisemitism on campus.

After all, why should American taxpayers’ money go to funding woke college ideology?

Now, Harvard claims the move is unconstitutional, violating the First Amendment, as well as the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Here are the details:

BREAKING: HARVARD SUES TRUMP AFTER $2B FREEZE: “HOW DARE YOU TOUCH OUR MONEY!”

America’s most elite university just declared legal war on the White House after Trump froze billions in federal funding over allegations the school failed to protect Jewish students from campus antisemitism.

Harvard President Alan Garber:

“The consequences of the government’s overreach will be severe and long-lasting”

The 50-page lawsuit claims Trump’s team “shortcutted the usual process” while administrators reject White House demands for federal oversight of admissions, hiring and – most shocking of all – student ideology.

The administration apparently expected Harvard to fold like Columbia did, but instead got slapped with a constitutional lawsuit that could determine whether universities answer to anyone at all.

Per ABC News:

Harvard University is suing President Donald Trump’s administration for threatening to withhold federal funding if the school did not comply with its list of demands.

The lawsuit, filed in Massachusetts federal court, asks a judge to block the funding freeze from going into effect, arguing the move is “unlawful and beyond the government’s authority.”

In it, lawyers for the university argue that the administration is unlawfully using billions of dollars in federal funding as “leverage to gain control of academic decision-making at Harvard.”

They also allege that the funding freeze violates the First Amendment, flouts federal law and threatens life-saving medical research.

“All told, the tradeoff put to Harvard and other universities is clear: Allow the Government to micromanage your academic institution or jeopardize the institution’s ability to pursue medical breakthroughs, scientific discoveries, and innovative solutions,” Harvard’s lawyers wrote.

Earlier this month, following the school’s refusal to budge on the government’s demands, the administration’s Joint Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism – alleging the school has failed to confront antisemitism on campus – froze $2.2 billion in grants and $60 million in contracts, and it reportedly plans to pull an additional $1 billion in funding for medical research.

The decision followed Harvard University President Alan Garber’s letter on April 14, which said that the school “will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights” by agreeing to a series of terms proposed by the Trump administration.

The New York Times has more:

Harvard, the world’s wealthiest university, sued the Trump administration on Monday, fighting back against its threats to slash billions of dollars from the school’s research funding as part of a crusade against the nation’s top colleges.

The lawsuit signaled a major escalation of the ongoing fight between higher education and President Trump, who has vowed to “reclaim” elite universities. The administration has cast its campaign as a fight against antisemitism, but has also targeted programs and teaching related to racial diversity and gender issues.

Earlier this month, it sent Harvard a list of demands that included auditing professors for plagiarism, reporting to the federal government any international students accused of misconduct, and appointing an outside overseer to make sure that academic departments were “viewpoint diverse.”

Alan M. Garber, Harvard’s president, accused the government in a statement on Monday of trying to wield “unprecedented and improper control.” Dr. Garber said the consequences of the government’s actions would be “severe and long lasting.”

 

What Harvard doesn’t understand is that this isn’t their money…

It’s your money.

It’s my money.

It’s every American taxpayers’ money.

And, we don’t want it going to fund their Anti-American propaganda machine.

They are not entitled to receive federal taxpayer dollars.

Let’s see how it goes in court…

This is a Guest Post from our friends over at WLTReport.

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