The war between the government of Donald Trump and his Harvard. A letter from the Minister of Education, Linda McMaon to the University President, Alan Garber, says his funding is expected to be banned.
“Harvard should no longer request federal donations because it will not receive any,” Donald Trump’s minister said in her letter, which she published via X.
“Harvard will no longer be a state -funded institution and can act as a private institution (…) by raising funds from its wealthy former students,” the second page of the letter said. Minister McMaon says the university, located near Boston, “receives billions of dollars from taxpayers every year”, without specifying the amount.
Donald Trump has recently accused Harvard of “anti -Semitism” And other well -known American universities such as Columbia, stressing that anti -Semitism has been blooming during student mobilizations against the war in the Gaza Strip, which their administrations are flatly denied.
Harvard and wider major American universities are very often targeted by the American Right, as it finds them too left for its tastes.
The oldest university in the US, very often at the top of the world’s best educational institutions, is often overwhelmed by Trump specifically because it appealed to justice against the freezing federal funding and subsidies of 2 more billions of dollars.
The US president wants authorities to acquire the opportunity to They control the processes of student registration, recruitment of teachers, and its programs on its target.
In her letter, Minister of Education McMan accuses Harvard of a “systematic” breach of “federal legislation” of being involved in “ugly racism” and “destructive management” of his disposal.
“Today’s letter marks the fee of new donations at the university”, It states in the penultimate paragraph.
In a letter to former students of the Foundation, Alan Garber stressed that the university has been involved in a long and existential battle and addressed call for donations.
President Trump has recently described Harvard – among other things – “anti -Semitic institution of the far left” and “threat to democracy”.