The Trump government escalates its campaign against Harvard University and instructs federal agencies to terminate or transfer all non-critical contracts with the Ivy League school, which may affect more than $ 100 million in financing. | Photocredit: Mel Musto/Bloomberg
President Donald Trump’s government is going to cancel all remaining federal contracts with Harvard University, which marks the last escalation of her fight against the oldest and richest American school.
Federal Acquisition Service Commissioner Josh Gruenbaum, in a letter from Bloomberg News, commissioned federal agencies to revise their contracts, the ones they do not consider critically and transfer to other suppliers if necessary. The contracts are worth $ 100 million, according to a person with knowledge of the case, who asked not to discuss the exercise of the administration.
“The US General Services Administration (GSA) helps all federal agencies in an assessment for termination or transition from their federal government contracts with Harvard University and affiliated companies,” says the letter. “This evaluation is in line with the directive of the administration that all federal contracted services steadfastly maintain and promote the strategic priorities of the agency.”
The letter, reported for the first time by the New York Times, asks agencies to report on their “actions or intended actions with regard to any contract mentioned” before 6 June.
Harvard did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The Trump government has already switched to freezing the financing and blocks Harvard’s ability to register international students in an intensifying struggle for what the president has released as a failure of the university and other academic institutions to combat anti-Semitism, and part of a broader campaign against diversity densions.
Administration officials under pressure schools, including Columbia, Cornell, Northwest and other elite universities to set up broad policy changes, so that they express concern about academic freedom, free expression and government interference. On Tuesday, Foreign Minister Marco Rubio ordered the American embassies to stop the worldwide planning new interviews for student-visa applicants, while the Trump administration weighs stricter control of social media profiles, a movement that will affect higher education throughout the country.
Harvard is, however, in the front and in the middle of the White House campaign, where the administration suspends more than $ 2.6 billion in federal research money and says that the school cannot receive new financing. Trump has also repeatedly called on Harvard to lose his tax -free status, which would have significant financial implications, even with the donation of $ 53 billion from the school.
The government has sought a series of changes as a condition for continuing its financial relationship with the university. It has demanded that the university is reinforcing its administration, transforming the admission and hiring faculty – which has called the administration discriminatory – and stops allowing international students that civil servants say they are hostile to American values.
The letter claims that Harvard “continued to do racing discrimination, including in its admission process and in other areas of student life” and says that the government “is aware of recent events at Harvard University with regard to anti -Semitic action that suggests that the institution has a disturbing lack of concern for the safety and well -being of Jewish students.”
Gruenbaum referred to alleged discrimination at the Harvard Law Review. A federal taskforce recently called on the assessment of a $ 65,000 grant to a demonstrator who was confronted with criminal prosecution for attacking a Jewish student on campus, a decision that the government claims was “assessed and approved” by a faculty committee.
Harvard President Alan Garber, who is Jewish, has apologized for the treatment of Harvard of anti -Semitism on campus and acknowledged that he himself experienced prejudices at school. But he also said that the size of the government’s requirements shows that “the intention is not to work with us to tackle anti -Semitism.” The university has sued the US government due to the cutbacks on the financing and the block for registering international students. The university won a temporary judicial order last week that blocks the government to maintain the foreign student ban.
“We had to move quickly because the consequences of the withdrawal of visas were terrible for our international students,” Garber told the Harvard Gazette. There will be a hearing this week where Harvard will try to extend the house ban, he said.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Name has argued that Harvard’s answers to the government’s requests to provide information about misconduct by foreign students were insufficient.
To regain his program certification, Harvard received 72 hours to provide six information about foreign students in the past five years, including disciplinary records and video of those who are involved in protests. Harvard has still not reversed the requested information.
Trump also threatened to distract billions of subsidy collars from the university on Monday.
“I am considering removing three billion dollars in subsidy money from a very anti -Semitic Harvard and to give it to trade schools in our country,” Trump said in a post on social media. “What a great investment that would be for the US, and so desperately needed !!!”
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Published on 27 May 2025
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