Harvard has 2.2 billion dollars frozen Trump administration

A Trump administration On Monday night, he said he freezes $ 2.2 billion Harvard University Above the concern of anti -Semitism on campus and other issues.

Freezing was announced a few hours after Harvard categorically rejected requirements Trump administration to turn off it Programs Dei and checking foreign students on ideological problems, including anti -Semitism, investing nearly $ 9 billion Federal Funding for a university at risk.

“No government – no matter which party is in power – should dictate why private universities can teach, whom they can recognize and hire, and what areas they can conduct,” – Harvard President Alan Garber wrote The note to the university community, which details its reasons so as not to meet the requirements.

“Although some requirements set out by the government are aimed at combating anti -Semitism, most are the direct state regulation of” intellectual conditions “in Harvard,” Garber said.

A US administration in the US and Department of Education He replied to the statement, which details the freezing of 2.2 billion dollars for long grants and $ 60 million at the long -standing cost of Harvard’s contract.

“Harvard’s statement today enhances anxiety thinking, which is endemic in the most prestigious universities and colleges of our country – that federal investments do not come with responsibility for upholding civil rights laws,” the federal agencies said.

“The learning violation that has recently suffered a campus is unacceptable. The persecution of Jewish students is unbearable,” the agencies said. “It’s time to take the problem seriously and take significant changes if they want to continue to receive taxpayers’ support.”

Harvard spokesman showed CNBC on a preliminary statement of Pumper if he was asked about the grant and freezing of contracts.

The spokesman emphasized the combernic comment: “For the government to retreat from these partnerships, it now risks not only the health and well-being of millions, but also the economic security and vitality of our nation.”

Harber also said the federal government has provided Harvard’s grants and contracts for almost a century, which led to “innovative innovations in a wide range of medical, engineering and scientific fields”.

Harvard potentially could be better for fighting financial pressure from the president Donald Trump And its administration meets the requirements of changes to Cambridge, Massachusetts, campus.

University has $ 53 billion fundsMore than 10 billion dollars higher than the second largest Yale University.

Trump’s administration, in a letter to Harvard on Friday, demanded the university to eliminate its diversity, justice and programs, as well as called for inspection of foreign students to support terrorism, anti -Semitism and hostility to “US values ​​and institutions inscribed in the US Constitution.”

Earlier on Monday Harvard said in tweet“The University does not give its independence or abandon its constitutional rights.”

“Neither Harvard nor any other private university can afford to capture the federal government,” said on Twitter.

Harvard’s lawyers said in a separate letter on Monday that the university took measures to combat anti -Semitism.

“Harvard remains open to the dialogue on what the university did and plans to do to improve the experience of each member of his community,” the lawyers write.

“But Harvard is not ready to agree to the demands that go beyond the legitimate authority of this or any administration.”

One of the lawyers representing Harvard Robert asWhich, as a special lawyer of the Ministry of Justice, investigated the former President Joe Biden processing Classified documents.

As was appointed Trump in 2017 to act as a US prosecutor in Maryland.

Another lawyer Harvard, William Burkserves outside the Ethics Advisor for the Trump Organization and the I World Co-Chair of the Law Firm Quinn Emanuel LLP.

Earlier on Monday, the White House suggested that Harvard’s financing is now off.

“(Trump) is working to do a higher education again, stopping at unproven anti-Semitism and providing federal taxpayers not to finance Harvard support in dangerous racial discrimination or racially motivated violence,” said White House spokesman Harrison Field.

“Harvard or any institution that wants to violate the VI title is not entitled to federal financing,” Fields said.

As part of his colleges and universities, the White House refused college and universities bulk About Dei programs across the country after Trump resumed the post in January.

Trump administration earlier this year reduced $ 400 million Columbia University On the occasion of the treatment of pro-Palestinian protests that broke out on the campus.

Columbia University willing to many requirements of the White House.

Last week the White House said he had for stopped More than 1 billion dollars of federal financing University of Cornell and approximately $ 790 million per North -Western University.