Elite US universities accused of prioritising foreign interests over American taxpayers
Centre of the American Experiment President John Hinderaker has criticised elite American universities, accusing them of cultivating 'unholy relationships' with foreign governments while turning their backs on the American taxpayers who fund them.
'University like Harvard gets billions of dollars in American taxpayer money, but they don't think that they are an American institution. They don't care,' Mr Hinderaker told Sky News host James Morrow.
'The last thing they care about is American taxpayers.
'They think they are a global institution and they train their students to be citizens of the world, and I think Donald Trump properly questions whether there's any reason why American taxpayers should be subsidising these operations to the tune of many billions of dollars.'
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