Trump doubles for the threat to end Harvard's tax -supported status | News

The President of the United States, Donald Trump, wrote on Friday that he would draw Harvards tax-satisfactory status for social media, the internal Revendue Service in the patient situation of the White House with the university.

“We will take Harvard's tax exemption status away,” Trump wrote in a position about the social truth. “It is what you earn.”

It was not immediately clear whether measures had already been taken to take Harvard's tax -satisfied status. A spokesman for the IRS did not respond to a request for comments.

“There is no legal basis for lifting Harvard's tax exemption status”, a spokesman for Harvard wrote in a statement. “Such an unprecedented act would endanger our ability to carry out our educational mission.”

According to the federal law, Trump cannot unilaterally end Harvard's tax -fighting status, and it is prohibited “indirectly or directly” to request the IRS to initiate a tax examination.

Non -profit organizations – including most schools such as Harvard – are exempt from the federal income tax when they work within their specified purposes and the legal limits of their classification. But the Republicans, including Trump, have long claimed that Harvard has deviated from her educational mission and has become a breeding ground for anti -Semitism.

Harvard and the White House have been locked up in a public struggle since the university rejected a number of requirements that included comprehensive changes to academic programming. Two weeks ago, Harvard sued the Trump administration because he had drawn 2.2 billion US dollars in federal granting and contracts in response to it.

At the beginning of the last month, Trump wrote in a post about the truth that his administration was considering taking Harvard's tax -free status in order to drive the ideology of “political, ideological and terrorist inspiration” to students. A day later, the IRS reported plans to revoke Harvard's tax exemption status.

But Trump's Friday post is the clearest sign that he intends to comply with his threat – and to significantly increase Harvard's tax burden.

If Harvard's tax exemption status is revoked, financial aid programs and research projects would be the hardest, the Harvard spokesman wrote.

Trumps Friday after a week in which Harvard has become one of his favorite verbal bags. During a speech at the opening ceremony of the University of Alabama on Thursday, Trump said thousands of graduates that Harvard had lost his prestige.

“It is clear that the next chapter in American history is not written by Harvard Crimson,” he said – apparently with regard to the school mascot, not in the school newspaper. “You are written, the Crimson Tide.”

On Wednesday, Trump Harvard described as a “Harlem” in sudden comments on Newsnation, which he concluded to the conclusion when he claimed that black people supported his attacks on the financing of the university.

– Staff -writer DHRUV T. Patel can be reached at dhruv.patel@thecrimson.com. Follow him on X @Dhruvtkpatel.

– Staffling writers Grace E. Yoon can be reached at grace.yoon@thecrimson.com. Follow her on x @Graceunkyoon.