Trump Administration to cut new federal research grants to Harvard

Washington – The Trump administration said on Monday that it would reduce all new federal research grants to Harvard University in the recent escalation of their fight with the school.

In a letter, the Minister of Education Linda McMahon from Ivy League University announced that she is only entitled to new federal grants if it corresponds to the administration's claims and “demonstrates the responsible management of the university”.

The two -sided letter to the President of the University demands what the administration sees as a “systemic pattern of violation of the federal law”. McMahon accuses Harvard of ignoring anti -Semitism, taking discrimination, “any appearance of academic strict” and “catastrophic mismanagement”.

“The concerns mentioned above are only a fraction of the long list of Harvard's consistent violations of his own legal tasks,” wrote McMahon. “In view of this and other allegations in question, it should be announced in this letter that Harvard should no longer obtain grants from the federal government because nobody is made available.”

According to an official from the Senior Education Department, federal loan financing and Pell are not affected by the move.

In an explanation, Harvard accused the administration of “doubleing the requirements that unprecedented and improper control over Harvard University and would have terrifying effects on university formation”.

It said Laws that Harvard submitted After the Trump administration announced that it would freeze 2.2 billion US dollars in grants and 60 million US dollars of contracts to the university.

“Harvard will continue to comply with the law, promote and promote the respect of the variety of perspectives and combat anti -Semitism in our community. Harvard will continue to against the illegal over -control of the government, which aims to suppress research and innovation that make the Americans safer and safer,” says the explanation.

Last week President Trump said that his government would round off the university Tax exemption statusAlthough he gave no further details. Harvard President Alan Garber said that such a step was “very illegal” in an interview with Wall Street Journal. US tax code prohibits executive industry officials to ask an IRS employee, carry out or terminate a test or investigation of a specific taxpayer.

According to Harvard, administered grants solidified grants the administration declined Requests to change many of the school guidelines and leadership, to discipline the protesters of the students and to examine students and faculties for “ViewPoint variety”. Harvard claimed that the government's lawsuit violated its constitutional rights and was part of a “pressure campaign to force Harvard to submit to the government's control over its academic programs”.