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Washington President Trump said on Friday that his administration would call for the tax-free status of Harvard University and continue to escalate the persistent feud with the Ivy League school.

“We will take Harvard's tax exemption status away. It is what you earn!” The president said in a post about the social of truth.

Mr. Trump gave no further details about the efforts to remove Harvard his name as 501 (c) (3) organization, but he only took such a step last month.

Around 2 million organizations received status from the Internal Revenue Service, including charity organizations such as churches, environmental groups and universities. The name means that the groups are exempt from the payment of federal income taxes, and the IRS takes into account donations to 501 (C) (3) organizations as tax deductible.

The Tax Code prohibits the executive officials to ask an IRS employee, to carry out or terminate an examination or investigation of a certain taxpayer.

Mr. Trump's decision is the latest in a series of steps that are aimed at the university. His government announced last month that this would be the case Freeze 2.2 billion US dollars in grants and 60 million US dollars of contracts to Harvard after the university rejected a number of administration requirements. The conditions included Harvard to break down his diversity, equity and inclusion programs, positions and initiatives, to change his attitudes and to change his leadership.

After the Trump administration announced that it would freeze the financing for Harvard University sues And claimed that the move was illegal. It is likely that a withdrawal of Harvard's tax -free status will request further legal steps.

The Ministry of Homeland Security too demanded Harvard Information about certain foreign student visa or risk of losing its certification in the student and visitor program. According to the university, more than 6,700 international students were registered at the school from October.

Kristi Noem, secretary of the homeland protection authority, accused Harvard in a letter to the school to “create an enemy learning environment for Jewish students because Harvard did not condemn the failure of anti -Semitism”.

CBS News reported Last month that the IRS is considering removing Harvard of his tax -exempt status, and Mr. Trump reporters said he believed that the school had misused the name. A Harvard spokesman said at the time that there is no legal basis for the revocation of the tax exemption status.

“For a long time, the government freed from taxes to support its educational mission,” said Harvard spokesman. “The tax exemption means that more of every dollar scholarships for students, life -saving and life -prone medical research as well as technological progress that promote economic growth can apply.”

The spokesman for the White House, Harrison Fields, said last month that “impending measures of the IRS are carried out regardless of the president” and “Investigations into violations of the tax status by the institution were initiated before the president's truth”, an indication of an earlier proposal from Mr. Trump that Harvard loses his tax trees.

Harvard has a foundation of 52.3 billion US dollars, the largest of all US universities.