President Donald Trump announced that he would cut all remaining federal contracts with Harvard as of Tuesday, raising further concerns over the school’s safety, curriculum, and refusal to comply with requests for information about foreign students.
According to a letter obtained by Fox News, the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) is now telling federal agencies to cut roughly $100 million in contracts with the Ivy League school and “find alternative” sources for its funding.
Among the severed contracts is over $1 million allocated to somewhat vague areas of academic research, including a study on “dietary health” outcomes.
Trump took to TRUTH Social on Memorial Day in a series of posts to discuss his next moves against Harvard. He focused mainly on reallocating billions in federal grants away from the school and toward trade schools nationwide.
The post was met with some online supporters who have long viewed Ivy League institutions as out of touch with anything connected to working-class America or the future of the country’s economic success.
The GSA’s letter outlined a few key complaints against Harvard, including:
- Academic Decline: GSA Commissioner, Josh Gruenbaum claimed the university now offers a remedial “middle school math” course to incoming students due to admissions that prioritize identity over merit.
- Title VII Concerns: Harvard’s employment patterns, particularly at the Harvard Law Review, were described as showing “pervasive and explicit racial discrimination” in hiring and editorial decisions.
- Campus Safety: The letter also cited a “disturbing lack of concern for the safety and wellbeing of Jewish students,” pointing to recent anti-Semitic incidents and what it called an “unsafe campus environment.”
The conflict between Trump and Harvard has already sparked multiple lawsuits, as previously reported by The Dallas Express.
Harvard is now challenging Trump in federal court, hoping to unfreeze around $3 billion in grant funding.
Trump has remained stern against the Boston-based school, saying that the university and its symbolically skyscraping ivory towers are now searching for a judge that would favor them in court, not just searching but “shopping” for that judge.
“We are still waiting for the Foreign Student Lists from Harvard so that we can determine, after a ridiculous expenditure of BILLIONS OF DOLLARS, how many radicalized lunatics, troublemakers all, should not be let back into our Country. Harvard is very slow in the presentation of these documents, and probably for good reason! The best thing Harvard has going for it is that they have shopped around and found the absolute best Judge (for them!) – But have no fear, the Government will, in the end, WIN!,” Trump said.
A chunk of Harvard’s student body could be impacted if the certification is revoked. But Trump is focused on the fact that Harvard’s antisemitic and anti-American curriculum could be farming a group of postured or pedestalled young foreigners against the very country that is hosting them and providing their Ivy League education.
“We are still waiting for the Foreign Student Lists from Harvard so that we can determine, after a ridiculous expenditure of BILLIONS OF DOLLARS, how many radicalized lunatics, troublemakers all, should not be let back into our Country. Harvard is very slow in the presentation of these documents, and probably for good reason,” the President added.