THE Donald Trump said on Friday that his government would remove from university Harvard The tax exemption regime, escalating its conflict with the universities of the so -called Ivy League.
US President Donald Trump said on Friday (02.05.2025) that Harvard University would lose its tax exemption regime in a move with a strong political burden, in the midst of a broader confrontation with the freedom of speech, political funding.
“We will remove the tax -free status from Harvard. This is worth it! ”, Trump says in a post on Truth Social.
THE Trump had been implied on April 15 that he was considering the possibility of removing the University’s tax privilegeand reportedly, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) had already begun planning to implement this mandate.
For his part, Harvard president responded in a strong style, stating that the university “will not deliver its independence nor will it disrupt its constitutional rights. Neither Harvard nor any other private university can allow it to be put under the control of the federal government. “
This is not the first time the US president has been against the University Foundation, which has recently described as a “anti -Semitic institution of the far -left” and a “threat to democracy”.
Donald Trump accuses this university and other higher education institutions of allowing their campuses to develop in their campuses anti -Semitism And his government has asked them to implement a number of measures – including the views of students and teaching staff – otherwise the federal state will cut their subsidies.
But he received Harvard’s denial.
This attitude caused the Federal subsidies of $ 2.2 billion with immediate effect.